Re: [Tracker] tag photos on import

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/02/10 09:25, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > i working currently on a small project which interpret DCIM name system
> > produced by cameras. I started it to fix my photo workflow.
>
> Interesting.
>
> > The programs like F-Spot are big monsters if you use it on netbook.
> > Especially if you use it only to import, tag and search photos. Most of
> > this can be done by tracker alone.
>
> Shameless plug. Did you know about Solang:
> http://projects.gnome.org/solang It is not as mature as F-Spot, yet,
> and its UI needs to be tweaked a bit to make it work nicely with
> smaller screens, but it uses Tracker for all sorts of things: tags,
> exif, searching. However it does not do imports from cameras.
>
> > Normally all you see if you import photos from the camera, is a batch of
> > files. For me these are groups, like panorama, interval and normal
> > photos, audio comments and filtered or edited photos related to some
> > original photos. All of this is possible to interpret if they are on the
> > cam. After you import it this information is mostly lost.
> > My idea is to tag and group this photos on import, and safe this
> > information to tracker.
>
> Sometime ago, on the Fedora lists there was a talk of a small
> dedicated photo importer application:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg00735.html

Note that Tracker already sees mounted media and already indexes it 
(based on your config settings). So if you insert a memory card, those 
pictures are automatically being indexed for you (assuming 
tracker-miner-fs is running which it should be).

If this is not working, please let us know and we will investigate.

By-the-way great comments from Ivan here.

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Regards,
Martyn