Support reading ACDSee tags from XMP data
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Link to original bug (#718586)
Description
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-05-22 05:58:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 5285
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5285
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5285
Original author: Ryan Lortie
Original description:
A friend of mine asked me yesterday if he should "make the switch" to Ubuntu/Fedora/etc. We went over all of the typical things that he needed to do to find out if he could survive the switch.
We managed to check off every box but one. There is a popular photo management program for windows called ACDSee that's quite similar to Shotwell in a lot of ways. He's using that and he has invested quite a lot of time in tagging and adding notes to his photos. I had him export an image for me with some tags and a note.
The result is a jpeg that I can open in eog (no surprise). When I go to Image properties, under Details, then under "XMP Other", I see there are the following keys:
acdsee:caption, acdsee:datetime, acdsee:author acdsee:rating acdsee:notes, acdsee:tagged, acdsee:categories
Some types:
- caption is presumably a string (but is empty in this example file he gave me)
- datetime is an ISO8601 string.
- rating is an int.
- notes is a string
- tagged is a boolean which is set to 'False' in my example image (even though there are tags added)
- categories is an XML fragment that looks like so:
<Categories>
<Category Assigned="0">
Places
<Category Assigned="1">
Bermudes 83
</Category>
</Category>
</Categories>
So there appears to be some nested tagging going on (and from what I saw of the program, that's the case).
It would probably be pretty straight-forward to support looking for the tags at import and converting them to Shotwell tags -- either in Shotwell or a plugin. As for adding notes, I didn't find an equivalent feature in the Shotwell UI, so that may be a bit more complicated.
I've attached a specimen.
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-05-22 07:42:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago
Thanks for the suggestion, Ryan. I don't think we've heard of ACDSee before (cool name, though!) so we're probably not going to build this into Shotwell core any time soon, but I agree this would make a great plugin. Unfortunately our plugin system doesn't allow plugins to perform transformations like this at import time, but we should extend it to allow that.
Shotwell doesn't yet allow adding notes to a photo, but we've wanted that feature for a long time: see #1573 (closed). Hopefully before too long.
--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:57 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 5285 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5285 Imported an attachment (id=262412)
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Resolution: RESOLVED FIXED