[Shotwell] Consider using Taglist to handle metadata?

[Adam Dingle]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:47 AM, <bjoern at gruenings.eu> wrote:

> Regarding Metatdata and the DB-related questions.
> Are there any plans to use tracker as Database storage?
>

This might mean either of two things:

1. Integrate with Tracker so that any photo captions, keywords or
descriptions entered in Shotwell are searchable via Tracker if the user has
Tracker installed.

2. Use Tracker rather than SQLite for storing photo captions/keywords (and,
perhaps, other state such as the edits made to each photo) in Shotwell.

I think that (1) would be useful, and we have a ticket for this (
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1890).  In fact, (1) might come entirely for
free if we decide to write out photo metadata to photo files on the fly,
which is a possibility the team is currently considering (perhaps as a user
option like in F-Spot).  Then if Tracker is running it can index the photo
metadata and it will be searchable.

(2) would mean that Shotwell would depend on Tracker: it would only be
possible to use Shotwell if Tracker were already running.  We're reluctant
to require this dependency, as some major distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) do not
install Tracker by default and we want to be part of the default install.
It's also not clear what additional benefits (2) would have over (1) to the
user, so this is not under consideration at this time.

adam