[Shotwell] Two features I'm really missing .... [ Finding a tag in the hierarchy ]

[Dougie Nisbet]

On 11/10/2011 15:15, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> On 29/09/2011 20:20, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
>> On 29/09/2011 19:52, Eric Gregory wrote:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>>
>>> The Find toolbar works for tags; just hit F8 and you can search 
>>> through your current view for a given tag.
>> I'm not sure it does, or I understand. Certainly, it can find text 
>> strings that are a substring of a tag, but if doesn't offer 
>> autocompletion of tags, or zoom into the tag in the tag pane.
>

I've found a rather clumsy workaround to this.

Locate the image (Right Click / Show in File Manager )
Open a terminal window
Type: exiftool -tagslist <fname>

This assumes that you write the metadata to the image file.

Dougie