[Shotwell] Importing tags - hmm

[Bengt Thuree]

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 12:10 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Bengt,
> 
> thanks for being brave enough to try out our new tag import feature so 
> soon after it's been committed to trunk!

Isn't that was a lot of volunter testers are for :)

> 
> > 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 

Sorry, there were no indications in the ticket, apart form it handled
importing tags, and it was closed (fixed in Trunk).

> 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").  

I went through all this with F-Spot, that is was the main driver for
importing tags to F-Spot, and there are a number of applications out
there that stores tags in a bit different ways.
I would definitely recommend Shotwell to read more formats than what it
stores.
I put up a wiki page with how F-Spot imports the tags for your
reference.

> 
> 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.

For the moment I will gladly help out with various testing of Shotwell,
but can not start really using it until it can read all my tags. That
was also the same comment for a lot of users who migrated to F-Spot
after the tag import got working. 
What I have seen so far from the development and tickets and responses
makes me think Shotwell will be a great product later on, and already is
very close to it (after just a couple of months!)


Again, thank you very much for a great product, and hope I am not
causing to much problem for you ...

/Bengt