Re: [Tracker] JPEG EXIF Metadata

["Damien Moore" <damienlmoore gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com> wrote:

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

good news
 

 

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.

does the latest version include the creation and modification dates of images in the metadata (or somewhere else). where in the source do I look to see what is supported?
 

After next release you can try again the extractor and open a bug if you feel that some important information is missing.

Actually, I'm happy to play around with trunk. I downloaded the source from trunk last night when I was playing around with the dbus interface. Now is trunk sufficiently stable that I could run the daemon in my main development session or should i virtualize the whole thing (I really don't want to do this - I'm well aware of the risks of running alpha software)

I'm prototyping a really lightweight image browser that uses tracker to supply the list of images and filter its views. It seems tracker should be up to the task. One thing I wonder about is whether tracker has a "live query". e.g. I search for a set of images and receive a list of hits, then I import a new image from my camera that meets the criteria of the search, could tracker be set up to notify my app about the new matching hits?
 
other Qs:
* has anyone got tracker to run successfully on windows?
* is it possible to setup a daemon on a shared space that can take queries from multiple users? (e.g. a shared image collection)

Thanks for the interest!

Don't thank me too soon, I'm going to have *many* more questions... :)