[Shotwell] Consider using Taglist to handle metadata?

[Bengt Thuree]

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:24 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Bengt Thuree <bengt.thuree at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi
>         
>         Just to inform you guys that F-Spot is starting a push to get
>         Taglib to
>         handle all the metadata.
>         
>         Perhaps this is something for Shotwell as well?
> 
> The C-based TagLib library
> (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html) handles audio
> metadata, not photo metadata (EXIF/IPTC/XMP), so it wouldn't be useful
> for Shotwell.  It appears that TagLib# is a .NET/Mono port of TagLib
> and that the TagLib# developers may be adding support for photo
> metadata.  Of course TagLib# is not an option for Shotwell, which has
> no dependency on Mono.  The trunk build of Shotwell uses libexiv2 to
> read photo metadata and it's working well, so I see no reason to
> consider switching to something else.

Just some small thoughts.
F-Spot will try to get taglib to handle metadata in images (as per one
of the bugzilla notes). Right now taglib only handles audio tags, but
perhaps soon...

Worth considering I thought... :)

/Bengt