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tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

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Recommend Photo Album App

After looking back at my build-as-you-go file structure for organizing photos, I've decided to look for something better, which shouldn't be hard to achieve .

What I would like is to be able to tag photos as I wish, for example person, place, date, event. And be able to search by tags ( and, or , not would be good). I haven't thought much about this, so maybe there is another way thats better. And maybe there are some fancy features you like in your software I might like. I would prefer no kde/gnome depends, but I would be willing to check them out.

Thanks for suggestions.

Susu

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Registered: 2005-11-11

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Re: Recommend Photo Album App

I prefer digkam. Yes, it's KDE but...it's powerful and still easy to use.

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3nd3r

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Re: Recommend Photo Album App

I know it isnt local but I use picasaweb, You can organise your photos how you want and they stay there even if your hdd craps out on you. Here is my album if you want to see how it looks
http://picasaweb.google.com/lord3nd3r

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redbit

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 57

Re: Recommend Photo Album App

You should try f-spot. It lets you organize your photos by tags and display them by place, event, etc.
It is a bit slow when displaying the photos, but there are not much alternatives for gnome desktop.

Sjoden

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Registered: 2007-08-16

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Re: Recommend Photo Album App

+1 Digikam

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Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: Recommend Photo Album App

You should try f-spot. It lets you organize your photos by tags and display them by place, event, etc.
It is a bit slow when displaying the photos, but there are not much alternatives for gnome desktop.

hehe, i like it how you say "a bit slow"... HELL IT IS SLOW, would be more fitting

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xpd259

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From: Bradford, UK

Registered: 2007-12-31

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Re: Recommend Photo Album App

I would say
f-spot or digikam 
i prefer f-spots import method of placing the photo in folders by date and tag system
but digikam blows f-spot out of the water with its plug in collection

tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 164

Re: Recommend Photo Album App

OK so I tried picasa 2.7 from aur, but it doesn't seem to support tagging.
I had qt3 already as a dependency so I next tried digikam, dependencies weren't too bad kdelibs of course and several small packages. Tagging works well, and the interface is smooth and well laid out.
Then I discovered my current viewer, gqview supports keywords with the same searching as digikam tags. However the meta data is stored in a mirrored directory structure with a meta file for each picture with a keyword. Seems to me search could get slow with a large amount of files, but I don't really know.

So I am debating between digikam and gqview now, as I don't imagine once setup it would be easy to transfer tags to keywords or vice-versa.  Digikam is a smoother interface to use and less likely to go unsupported.

Edit: Picasa 2.7 does have keywords but no way to differentiate search for keywords, filename, folder name. So if keyword is part of a folder name you get the whole folder's contents.

Last edited by tesjo (2008-03-14 00:07:47)