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Renan Birck

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 401

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Lightweight photo management app?

Hello,

I have a large collection of photos (>20GB), so a way to manage them is essential and directories aren't good enough.
I need good search by tags and EXIF.

However, I'd like a simple, lightweight tool to do that. I've been through

- digiKam (tons of KDE dependencies, not what I want for a lightweight desktop; WAY too over-the-top for me, lots of features I don't need at all)
- F-Spot (Mono and GNOME dependencies)
- Picasa (depends on Wine and, therefore, doesn't integrate well).

Any suggestions? I don't need any special features like editing or making slideshows or prints, just a robust and efficient way of searching and managing the collection.

Thanks!

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tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: Lightweight photo management app?

solang (in AUR). It is beta, no official release yet, but you can give it a try.

RobbeR49

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From: Columbus, OH

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 178

Re: Lightweight photo management app?

I use the geeqie for viewing photos, and I never really looked before but it appears to have the ability to do tags and comments.

The search looks pretty robust, but strangely seems to be missing any way to search by EXIF data - but maybe I missed it.

Anyways, might be another option to check out.

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 726

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Re: Lightweight photo management app?

Mirage, GQview and Geeqie (latter is clever but buggy) with right-click context menu items customized to access scripts which use Exiftool or Exiv2 to manipulate Exif and Jpeg data.

Last edited by ninian (2009-12-20 22:00:42)

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Lightweight photo management app?

has some gnome dependencies, but not much really: gthumb.

really nice application, which is mostly based on a filesystem-based system, but also supports all kind of metadata. give it a try

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papounet

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Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 22

Re: Lightweight photo management app?

Looking for the same thing here are a few other apps I tried:

JBrout(http://code.google.com/p/jbrout/) python: clean simple interface, good search but is missing some features such as geotagging. Also I find the viewer a bit limited

Mapivi http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml perl: Clutered Tk interface but a wealth of features including IPTC rating which I haven't found anywhere else yet.

phraymed (https://launchpad.net/phraymd) python: Not really lightweight as it has many gnome depencies. Supposed to become a replacement? for Fspot. Active development.

BlueMarine (http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/home.html) Java: I haven't tried it out. They say it is supposed to integrate the whole digital photo workflow.

PS: OT but how do you do named links??

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: Lightweight photo management app?

PS: OT but how do you do named links??

Use the appropriate BBCode tag