Re: [Tracker] JPEG EXIF Metadata

["Ivan Frade" <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi Damien

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Damien Moore <damienlmoore gmail com> wrote:

This is probably a stupidity on my part, but I'm not sure where else to ask...

I'm using ubuntu 8.04 with the default install of tracker v0.6. I've indexed a large number of photos and have started tinkering with tracker's dbus interface and the tracker-extract command and noticed a couple things:

1. GetRegisteredTypes method in the org.freedesktop.Tracker.Metadata interface returns an empty list for the service_type 'Files' or 'Images'. Is this method not fully supported in the v0.6.6? (I notice the GetAll method available in trunk appears to be absent altogether in 0.6.6)

We have improved/fixed almost everything in the daemon, including those methods. In the next release of tracker it is going to be fixed.
 

2. When I use tracker-extract to look at the metadata I see the following paltry list of key,item pairs (notably no date information!!)

The tracker-extractor in trunk extracts more information. Our intention is not to extract _every_ possible information from the images, but that useful for a regular desktop user. After next release you can try again the extractor and open a bug if you feel that some important information is missing.

what am I missing?

One year of development with no release, but we are working on that :)

Thanks for the interest!

Ivan