OLPC Pune meet and photo management
This Sunday I went to OLPC Pune meet to give a talk on activity development. The students seem be very enthusiastic. The talk lasted for around 2 hours. Photos can be found here.
On the other side, I was looking for a photo catalogue software which can catalogue my photos on DVD or any other removable media, it should also allow me to search them based on EXIF data and tags and should show thumbnail(s) in the result.
I generally use digikam and gthumb too manage and view the photos. In digikam I never being properly able to catalogue photos on DVD (never tried on the last few updates) and gthumb is too slow in showing the thumbnail or full screen views for the large size photos I take. I prefer gthumb over over digikam to view the photos due to the simpler UI.
Finally decided to write my own app for this, which will *not* have any editing features, Gimp is the tool I use for editing. Watch this video (3.2MB) and please comment if the thumbnail creation / viewing is fast or not ?
6 Comments to OLPC Pune meet and photo management
tried gwenview?
jospoortvlietApril 6, 2009
I wonder if gwenview doesn’t work for you? I couldn’t watch the video at work but might tonight :D
RasiApril 6, 2009
There is tellico, which can include thumbnails of pictures too… it should be exactly what you want.
Rainer EndresApril 6, 2009
Have you tried
Maybe already what you are searching for? But I guess you already found all of them :)
kdApril 6, 2009
@Aaron , @jospoortvliet:
I use gwenview also, it works well while showing the thumbnails and actual viewing them. But I can not catalogue photos on removable devices using it. I can use it with a catalogue system (mine) , but better to have both functionalities in one app.
Tommy.SApril 6, 2009
I suggest to try newest digikam because it allows you to store DVD disks and other remote medias.
But that ain’t good for OLPC because it is too feature rich. It could be made smaller to offer needed features (XMP, tags, sketch and other features) for software.
I like the kphotoalbum to be good for small amount of pictures but it will get lost when managing thousands of pictures. Someway gwenview is too limited to handle pictures as well. As far I have found the digikam only to be best application for this task.
April 6, 2009