Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with experience viewing EXIF data in Dolphin?

[Andrew Lowe]

On 6/7/19 4:31 am, Mick wrote:
> 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

	Shall do on this.

>>
>>>      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.
>

	I spent much time getting rid of the semantic desktop so that's that 
last thing I need. I've given exiftools a go before and it gave me all I 
needed so a combo of the right click and it will give me all I need.

	Thanks for the comments,

		Andrew