Adam Dingle <adam@...> writes: > Today, Shotwell only supports the notion of a title for each image. As > you've correctly observed, that comes from Xmp.dc.title. We'd like to > extend Shotwell so that each image can have a description as well as a > title: > > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1573
Hi Adam & all. Thanks for your efforts on this great application. +1 for this request. I have used gThumb so far, and many photos in my archive have both a short title/caption and a longer notes/description. I'll admit it's a bit of a mess to check what each photo program or web service does with the EXIF and other fields but I had a nice working combination for these two fields using gThumb + Flickr Uploader. At this point I'm using Shotwell in parallel with gThumb but since SW only supports one field it tends to overwrite any note in the other fields that gThumb uses. I think this comes from SW writing the title into Caption-Abstract in addition to two other fields. My findings: 1. gThumb short title goes in both "Title" and "Headline" fields (as reported by exiftool, not sure which technical tags this exactly means). SW uses the same fields + Caption-Abstract as well. 2. gThumb long description goes in 3 fields: "User Comment", "Description" and "Caption-Abstract" 3. Flickr Uploader takes these values from at least two of the fields above and uses them to set the appropriate fields online. So I was a relatively happy camper with gThumb, but now I would really like to upgrade to SW in order to benefit from the more advanced features like fast searches, and some more advanced and non destructive global edit/retouching functions. I'm a bit stuck because of this. It would really have been nicer for me if SW did not touch the Caption-Abstract field. Is there any other field available that SW currently ignores? Luc _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
