[Shotwell] Importing Tags

[Adam Dingle]

Tony,
> I've just started playing with 0.5.0 and it's pretty impressive.
>   

Thanks!

> I've been using kphotoalbum for several years now and have nearly 9000
> images tagged with events, people, places, etc.
>
> I'd love to make the switch to shotwell, but I can't afford to loose all
> those tags.  Kphoto stores tags in XML, is it possible to import these into
> shotwell?
>
>   

It's not yet possible to import these tags into Shotwell, 
unfortunately.  Within the next couple of releases we hope to be able to 
import from IPTC tags embedded in photo files (see 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1290).  I don't know whether KPhotoAlbum 
can export IPTC tags, however.  A Web search for [kphotoalbum iptc] 
reveals that there has been some work in that direction, but I don't 
know whether it's made it into the shipping KPhotoAlbum.

In theory we could implement KPhotoAlbum-specific importing in 
Shotwell.  Feel free to file a ticket for that if you like, though I 
think we would definitely prioritize that below importing from IPTC 
tags, which are supported by many photo applications.

adam