I wonder if I'm the first one to say: http://gallery.sf.net one of the most amazing webapp I've seen.
Gallery1 works on raw filesystem + data file, Gallery2 keeps the data in DB (mysql but probably others as well). I think it fits MOST of your requirements. - Oren On Wednesday, 8 August 2007 00:47:24 Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi, > > Like most people with a digital camera, I've amassed thousands of photos > on my hard disk. Viewing them with "xv", my trusty but long-in-the-tooth > image viewer, has become unwieldy, if not damn near impossible. I also > really miss the possibility to *search* on my photos without going over all > the pictures every time - something which I find myself doing very often > for various occasions. > > So basically, I'm looking for a photo management application for Linux. > Something like Picassa would have been a good start, but not good enough, > as you'll see below in my wish-list. I also tried f-spot and it's not good > enough. So I was wondering, maybe the wise people of this list can > recommend a good photo management application for Linux? > > Here is my wishlist for a photo manager. In fact, I'm wishing for these > features so much, that I'm itching to write one myself... (but I hope it > doesn't have to get to that). > > 1. I don't want any sort of vendor lock-in, forcing me to stay with a > certain application once I choose it. Therefore: > > a. The photo manager should be able to work on a normal filesystem > hierarchy of photos, neither ruining it nor making a complete copy. > > b. Whichever metadata the photo manager wants to save (like tags - see > below) it should save in an open, simple and potentially-standard > file format. > Not in an uber-complex database, and not (given 1a) to the photo > files themselves. Picasa and f-spot both fail in this regard - I didn't > manage to extract the meta-data I save in them to any readable format. > > 2. The application should allow me to easily and quickly browse all my > photos in different sizes (like in picassa). > > 3. The application should allow me to add textual descriptions and "tags" > to pictures, and have a full-featured text search engine to search > these. > > For example, I can add to each picture tags specifying the persons in > the picture, location of the picture, and so on, and then, for example, > search for all pictures containing a specific person. F-spot's tags are a > good start, while Picassa's folders are a worthless disaster. But remember > 1b - these tags need to be saved in a simple format, not in a propriatary > database. I don't want to spend hours to type tags in, and then be unable > to use them if I switch software. I don't loose my C code if I switch from > VI to Emacs! > > 4. Bonus points for some automatically-generated "tags" based on dates, > camera, colors, and other information obtainable from the picture files. > > 5. I want a digital photo manager, not a digital camera manager, and not a > sophisticated photo editor - for which separate applications are > available. > > 6. Bonus points for an application that doubles as (or is only) a Web- > application - allowing others to "log in" to the application over the > web, and see my pictures according to access controls I specify (e.g., I > can say that a specific person can only see pictures with some specific > tag). > > Extra bonus points for a Web application that can host picture > collection uploaded by several users, allow them to manage their own photos > and others so see only some (as above), and perhaps help with the tagging > task. I'm looking for something small, though, not something capable of > running a huge site like as flickr.com. > > > So, can anyone point me to a good (according to my definition of good ;-)) > digital photo manager? Or shall I be forced to write one myself? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
