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broken pipe

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Registered: 2010-12-10

Posts: 248

[search] DE independant photo manager

hi all,
i'm looking for a photo manager which doesn't depend on any big dependencies or on a desktop environment like gnome or kde. i want to keep the amount of packages as small as possible.

best regards :>

Last edited by broken pipe (2010-12-26 16:09:43)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [search] DE independant photo manager

Define "photo manager". There were many similar threads which all came to the conclusion that featurefull programs nowadays require standard libraries like qt.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … ge_Viewers

I use picasa, but it's really big - over 100MB - and bundles its own wine.
There's also http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12291 and Shotwell.

Edit: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18641 looks interesting, but it's not exactly lightweight.

Last edited by karol (2010-12-26 18:55:23)

sitquietly

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From: On the Wolf River

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 220

Re: [search] DE independant photo manager

i'm looking for a photo manager which doesn't depend on any big dependencies or on a desktop environment...

I went through such a search a short while ago and took a quick look at some apps that tag and search collections of photos
(view and search photo collections and tag photos with metadata, preferably in the photo file itself by IPTC or XMP tagging):

gThumb stores metadata as xml in .comments file in each directory or can use libiptcdata and is apparently considering libexiv2.
Maybe it supports xmp, I'm not sure.  gThumb pulls in libgnome, hence gvfs.  It could be a reasonable choice.

jBrout stores metadata in the files properly. jBrout is a python/gtk app.  It's not a "pro" solution.

darktable may be good --- the interface is not self-explanatory and I haven't done any work with it yet.

Digikam and Kphotoalbum have all the necessary features and are probably the optimal solutions to your needs.
Their dependencies are similar:

|--digikam
   |--kdebase-runtime
   |--kdegraphics-libs
   |--kdeedu-marble
   |--liblqr

|--kphotoalbum
   |--kdebase-runtime
   |--kdegraphics-libs

I finally selected digikam as the optimal solution for my lightweight desktop (xmonad/lxpanel/rox-filer).  Digikam launches as fast as my other, mostly gtk, apps, and meets all my requirements.  I also find that k3b is a MUST HAVE application, brasero made a bunch of nice coasters for me :<   In non-KDE environments it seems to work best to launch digikam and other kde apps using kdeinit4:

   $  kdeinit4 digikam

In other words, I (now) agree with karol's advice.

Spacenick

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-02

Posts: 168

Re: [search] DE independant photo manager

I like Shotwell quite well, it's GTK based so if you already run GTK Applications this might be for you

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: [search] DE independant photo manager

depending on what features you require (as in if you just want to view photos and have it be ultra-light) I suggest feh. 
What features do you require? that would make things a little easier to point you in the right direction

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