On Friday, 5 July 2019 21:22:31 BST Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On 05/07/2019 15:37, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I'm transferring my install from a spinning disk to an SSD and
> > decided to tidy up/customise/stuff up things as I go. I've recently
> > taken a lot of photo's whilst travelling and I have the Coords in the
> > EXIF data. What I would like is to be able to easily view this data.
> > There is a thingy called "ReImage"[1] which allows for a right click
> > within Dolphin and you can select an option to display the EXIF data in
> > a dialogue box.

I recall using an earlier version of this and it is a useful and easy submenu 
option to apply ImageMagick on a file.


> >     I had to manually install this as I could find nothing on "Dolphin
> > Service Menus" within Portage, or the Gentoo wiki or basically on line
> > at all, so is there a Gentoo way of dealing with these in the first place?
> 
> Not really. You can submit a bug or PR though as some of these do make
> into the tree sometimes.
> 
> $ eix --homepage store.kde.org
> 
> >     Secondly, I then came across "kfilemetadata" in Portage. Without
> > installing this as well, does this give the same thing? If so, how do
> > you use this thing? Acutally, as I'm writing this, I'm still reserching
> > and api.kde.org[2] says it's a library, so what apps use it?
> 
> Not the same thing.
> 
> kfilemetadata is solely a library and should be pulled in by other
> packages that need it.
> 
> You have to enable USE="semantic-desktop" to make Dolphin and others
> pull it in and use it.

If a GUI is not necessary and a semantic database indexing is not required, 
you can give exiftool a spin, which can be scripted with find to search your 
files and store them according to any exif tag.

-- 
Regards,

Mick

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