Re: [Tracker] Automatically creating an album for screenshots

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 07/10/13 11:56, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> I need your advice regarding:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709368

Thanks Debarshi,

> Currently albums or collections are implemented using nfo:DataContainer, and
> screenshots are identified by checking the tEXt::Software option for
> 'gnome-screenshot'.

I don't follow regarding the "tEXt::Software option" bit?

Actually, in my Bugzilla comment, I didn't consider DataContainer. It 
does make some sense. It subclasses nie:InformationElement and we can 
use nie:title for it due to that.

> I am wondering if the filesystem miner could look at tEXt::Software and create
> a nfo:DataContainer for all photos that have it. Ofcourse it could be under a
> optional --enable-gnome flag because this might be specific to GNOME.

Makes sense.
The hard part is knowing what's a photo and what's a screenshot?
By filename? By location? By metadata in the file itself?

Then where do you add this? In the extractors (we have a bunch of them), 
the miner-fs itself probably doesn't a lot of sense because it deals 
with file-only data and passes on the metadata specifics - which this is.

> Or do you think there are better ways to do this? What do you think?

I've added some ideas to the bug report.

Thanks,

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Martyn

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