[Shotwell] Importing tags - hmm

[Adam Dingle]

Bengt,

thanks for being brave enough to try out our new tag import feature so 
soon after it's been committed to trunk!

> Importing one photo below, and Shotwell finds one of the tags (Bengt), but nothing else.
>    

I hope it's clear that Shotwell today will *not* import all 
EXIF/IPTC/XMP tags and make them available through the user interface 
explicitly.  There are higher-end photo programs which do that (e.g. 
Aperture), but at this time Shotwell will only import a title (or 
"caption") and keywords (which appear in the Shotwell user interface as 
"tags").  This means that the most you should have expected from this 
import was that Shotwell would import the keywords ("Bengt") and the 
title ("Bengt holding Andreas Pullinen").  It didn't import the title 
because we haven't yet chosen to import titles from the 
Iptc.Application2.Headline tag, since none of the existing photo 
programs we've looked at write to it.  But perhaps we should read from 
that tag, come to think of it.

 > Another photo do not give any errors on the command line, but only 
manages to import one field (Keywords field).

Again, that behavior is pretty much expected, although perhaps we should 
have additionally imported the Iptc.Application2.Headline as a title.

It's possible that someday Shotwell will import all IPTC/XMP tags and 
make them available for displaying/editing/searching.  We're currently 
not planning that for 0.6, however.

adam