EXIF Tags In Nautilus
After seeing one of the new Windows Vista screenshots showing Explorer listing image titles in the list view, I decided to have a quick hack on this in Nautilus. Hey presto:
ROCK ON. At the moment it only lets you see the image title on JPEG files (from the Image Description EXIF tag), but I'll extend that later. The good thing is that it's nicely behaved, using asynchronous I/O and only reading as much of the file as it needs.
NP: Worldwide Underground, Erykah Badu
Posted by PlanetReader at Thu Jul 28 15:55:36 2005:
Just wondering -- what did you use to write the descriptions into the EXIF tags? I haven't found any good open-source applications that allow easy editing of EXIF tags ...
Posted by Julian Turner at Thu Jul 28 15:57:52 2005:
That's typical for the Linux Open Source fanatics... They always copy Microsoft's big innovations!
</sarcasm>
Cool Stuff!
Posted by Ross at Thu Jul 28 16:04:31 2005:
</sarcasm>
Cool Stuff!
Mysterious PlanetReader: I use a custom script which calls the Perl module Image::MetaData::JPEG. It's nice and short so I'll paste it here:
<pre>
use Image::MetaData::JPEG;
my $usage = "jpeg-title.pl <filename> <title>";
my $filename = shift @ARGV || die $usage;
my $title = shift @ARGV || die $usage;
my $jpeg = new Image::MetaData::JPEG($filename);
die "Error: " . Image::MetaData::JPEG::Error() unless $jpeg;
$jpeg->set_Exif_data({'ImageDescription' => $title}, 'IMAGE_DATA', 'ADD');
$jpeg->save($filename)
</pre>
Posted by emmanuel at Thu Jul 28 16:08:42 2005:
<pre>
use Image::MetaData::JPEG;
my $usage = "jpeg-title.pl <filename> <title>";
my $filename = shift @ARGV || die $usage;
my $title = shift @ARGV || die $usage;
my $jpeg = new Image::MetaData::JPEG($filename);
die "Error: " . Image::MetaData::JPEG::Error() unless $jpeg;
$jpeg->set_Exif_data({'ImageDescription' => $title}, 'IMAGE_DATA', 'ADD');
$jpeg->save($filename)
</pre>
I submitted a GNOME bug for something close to this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304967
But that bug was more "general" maybe.
great work otherwise!
Posted by joeuser at Thu Jul 28 16:22:44 2005:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304967
But that bug was more "general" maybe.
great work otherwise!
nice little feature, but there is a prerequisite bug that needs to be solved:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47806
othervise, that feature is quite useless
Posted by Ross at Thu Jul 28 16:29:03 2005:
Posted by Alan at Thu Jul 28 18:16:34 2005:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47806
othervise, that feature is quite useless
It is not just Windows Longhorn this functionality has been around a while but only with the increased use of Digital cameras and lots of files with good metadata do they have a good reason to expose this feature.
Go to windows Explorer, choose
View,
Choose Details
and you can add a whole bunch of extra information.
Unfortunately not many documents have metadata worth showing so it is not generally worth turning on permanently but it can be useful for in a few select folders.
Posted by Colin Marquardt at Thu Jul 28 21:32:54 2005:
Go to windows Explorer, choose
View,
Choose Details
and you can add a whole bunch of extra information.
Unfortunately not many documents have metadata worth showing so it is not generally worth turning on permanently but it can be useful for in a few select folders.
And to install the Perl module nicely on Debian, do
dh-make-perl --build --install --cpan 'Image::MetaData::JPEG'
Posted by Tom at Fri Jul 29 15:01:44 2005:
dh-make-perl --build --install --cpan 'Image::MetaData::JPEG'
Looks great. It will be very usefull with new search tools. I hope you could edit the title same way you can rename files.
Thanks, keep up the good work.
Posted by Colin Marquardt at Sun Aug 21 22:45:50 2005:
Thanks, keep up the good work.
Please give us a patch! :) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304967 would be a good place to attach it.
Posted by Colin Marquardt at Tue Aug 30 23:00:19 2005:
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