Just adding a couple of cents. On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:58 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 08/08/07, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So basically, I'm looking for a photo management application > for Linux. > > I use Digikam for a few years now and am very satisfied with it.
I'd like to also recommend Digikam > 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 > > That's exactly why I like Digikam so much - being able to search on > tags. I'd like to comment that Digikam tags can be ordered in a hierarchical fashion - for example, in my albums I have top level "people", "places" and "events" tags, and then I have tags for each person I wish to tag, each place or each event. It makes is very easy to search for specific things, or just browse around - selecting a top level tag would work as you expect. Also I really like Digikam's way of tagging images - yes, you can "edit" the image and write down tags manually, or - you can create a tag in the tag tree, and then drag that tag to (one or more) images or drag images to the tag. > 5. I want a digital photo manager, not a digital camera > manager, and not a > sophisticated photo editor - for which separate > applications are available. > > Check. I just mount my camera's card through the card reader, import > to Digikam using "import folder" and manually erase the photos from > the card. I think it can manipulate media connected through USB > directly ( e.g. connect your camera through USB cable and use the > special communications mode to talk to it) Yes it does. you can add your camera to Digikam, and whenever you plug it in you can load Digikam's import dialog which lets you select the pictures you want to import and either "download", "delete" or "download and delete" (which saves time on the whole process, IMHO). > but I like the "manual" "mount + copy" approach, not the least > because it saves on camera batteries and I think it's also faster as > I'm not sure my camera (Canon EOS 350D) supports USB 2 at all. I have no idea why you think so - on the contrary, minimizing the number of human actions and hence time spent with the camera on seems to me to save on batteries. Also - transfer speed has nothing to do with it, unless you refer to import tools' feature to show you thumbnails of the images before you import them, but that is optional - you can start to select and move your photos before the thumbnail generation is complete. I personally no longer use the Digikam camera import feature. As I use GNOME as my default desktop, it has the "camera import wizard" pops up as soon as I connect my camera and I find it easier and faster to use that. > 6. Bonus points for an application that doubles as (or is > only) a Web- > application > That's one thing I miss in Digikam. I currently use Gallery2 which > imports photos from the Digikam folders. Gallery has an option to link > to existing files so it doesn't keep another copy of the image. It can > manage multiple users with different levels of access defined per > image or per folder. Digikam has several export methods, including the ability to generate HTML files for upload to website (or directly to your web folder if you host your web site locally). I use Gallery2 as well, on a remote server, and Digikam offers an "export to remote gallery" feature that allows me to easily upload images to Gallery2. -- Oded ================================================================= 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]
