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Thread: PhotoRate: Rate your images from the nautilus file manager

Started 3 months, 1 week ago by Atticus
I've recently gotten into photography as a hobby and wanted a way to give my photos a rating that would stick with them, and that I could see easily when browsing in nautilus. Google didn't turn anything up, so I decided to write my own. PhotoRate is a nautilus file manager extension (for GNOME) that allows you to rate an image from 1 to 5 from the context menu, where rating the imagge modifies...
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drag replied 3 months, 1 week ago
I'm all for people improving things, but make sure that there isn't already something that can do what you want. See: http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/download.htm Maybe that will solve your problems and contibuting to that will help other people using Python for other graphical/photo management stuff. Of course there is the possibility that it's shit and rewriting everything in C will get you...

Atticus replied 3 months, 1 week ago
Contributing patches to pyexiv2 is definitely a possibility. However, development on the pyexiv2 module seems to have stagnated somewhat. There are a handful of patches submitted to the bugtracker that seem to be in limbo. Also, it is just one more abstraction layer to deal with on the linux stack, complete with its own issues apart from libexiv2. One reason I was interested in writing the ...

 

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Published (2009-09-14 16:00:00)
Contributing patches to pyexiv2 is definitely a possibility. However, development on the pyexiv2 module seems to have stagnated somewhat. There are a handful of patches submitted to the bugtracker that seem to be in limbo. Also, it is just one more abstraction layer to deal with on the linux stack, complete with its own issues apart from libexiv2. One reason I was interested in writing the extension in C was to make it easier to port to other...
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Published (2009-09-14 11:33:00)
I'm all for people improving things, but make sure that there isn't already something that can do what you want. See: http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/download.htm Maybe that will solve your problems and contibuting to that will help other people using Python for other graphical/photo management stuff. Of course there is the possibility that it's shit and rewriting everything in C will get you want you want easier. Either way, good...

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