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On Friday, 5 July 2019 21:22:31 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: |
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> On 05/07/2019 15:37, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I'm transferring my install from a spinning disk to an SSD and |
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> > decided to tidy up/customise/stuff up things as I go. I've recently |
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> > taken a lot of photo's whilst travelling and I have the Coords in the |
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> > EXIF data. What I would like is to be able to easily view this data. |
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> > There is a thingy called "ReImage"[1] which allows for a right click |
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> > within Dolphin and you can select an option to display the EXIF data in |
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> > a dialogue box. |
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I recall using an earlier version of this and it is a useful and easy submenu |
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option to apply ImageMagick on a file. |
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> > I had to manually install this as I could find nothing on "Dolphin |
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> > Service Menus" within Portage, or the Gentoo wiki or basically on line |
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> > at all, so is there a Gentoo way of dealing with these in the first place? |
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> Not really. You can submit a bug or PR though as some of these do make |
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> into the tree sometimes. |
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> $ eix --homepage store.kde.org |
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> > Secondly, I then came across "kfilemetadata" in Portage. Without |
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> > installing this as well, does this give the same thing? If so, how do |
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> > you use this thing? Acutally, as I'm writing this, I'm still reserching |
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> > and api.kde.org[2] says it's a library, so what apps use it? |
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> Not the same thing. |
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> kfilemetadata is solely a library and should be pulled in by other |
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> packages that need it. |
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> You have to enable USE="semantic-desktop" to make Dolphin and others |
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> pull it in and use it. |
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If a GUI is not necessary and a semantic database indexing is not required, |
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you can give exiftool a spin, which can be scripted with find to search your |
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files and store them according to any exif tag. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |