[Shotwell] Importing tags - hmm

[Adam Dingle]

Bengt,

On 05/10/2010 04:22 PM, Bengt Thuree wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>    

Thanks for your Wiki page!  I think I finally understand what you were 
expecting: you wanted Shotwell to import your location and people XMP 
tags and turn them into ordinary Shotwell tags.  We weren't planning to 
do that at this point.  We're definitely interested in having a sidebar 
location tree in Shotwell (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1473), but I 
think the elements in that tree will not be ordinary tags: Shotwell will 
know about their locations so that it can display photos on a map or 
perform geographic searches.  We might also implement a people sidebar 
tree along with face detection (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1702).  So 
in the long term I think we'd like to import location/XMP tags as 
metadata for those alternate views, not into ordinary tags as Shotwell 
supports today.

Thanks also for adding the Wiki text mentioning the SyncMetaData F-Spot 
extension that writes F-Spot metadata to photo files.  This will be very 
useful for users who want to migrate from F-Spot to Shotwell.

>>    
> 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.

Understood.  I do hope we'll be able to make Shotwell handle a wider set 
of tags including ratings and locations before too long.

adam