From: Robert Rothenberg Date: 23:08 on 18 Dec 2007 Subject: F-Spot Hate ------=_Part_18849_14161938.1198019325571 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline While I'm on a roll, why not throw some hate at F-Spot. Most of my photos have the date taken stored with other metadata as part of the file. F-Spot seems to ignore this and uses something else to decide that the photo was taken on January 1, 1980. It's certainly not the file date, because that happens to match the metadata some of my photos. Except when I've imported files from some old backups--- then it wants to use the date I copied the files, or maybe today's date, or some other date that doesn't seem to have any relationship to the actual photos. Could it at least let me change the date it associates with the photos? No. (Is it really so hard to move a file from one YYYY/MM directory to another?) It's not like I might want to import scanned in photos of my Aunt Tilly in 1920 and, say, tag it with the correct date? So the photo timeline is damn useless, with a lot of photos in January 1980 and the last few months as I've imported photos. What good is all of the tagging abilities if the f***ing program cannot use the metadata embedded in the file, that every other [f]utility can manage to read? Oh yeah. Tags. It defaults to assigning an icon for tags to the first photo that one assigns to the tag by dragging the photo onto the tag. No way to undo this, except to assign it a different icon. There's no "no icon" option to choose once an icon is assigned. And there's no way to disable this behaviour. ------=_Part_18849_14161938.1198019325571 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline While I'm on a roll, why not throw some hate at F-Spot.<br><br>Most of my photos have the date taken stored with other metadata as part of the file. F-Spot seems to ignore this and uses something else to decide that the photo was taken on January 1, 1980. It's certainly not the file date, because that happens to match the metadata some of my photos. Except when I've imported files from some old backups--- then it wants to use the date I copied the files, or maybe today's date, or some other date that doesn't seem to have any relationship to the actual photos. <br><br>Could it at least let me change the date it associates with the photos? No. (Is it really so hard to move a file from one YYYY/MM directory to another?) It's not like I might want to import scanned in photos of my Aunt Tilly in 1920 and, say, tag it with the correct date? <br><br>So the photo timeline is damn useless, with a lot of photos in January 1980 and the last few months as I've imported photos.<br><br>What good is all of the tagging abilities if the f***ing program cannot use the metadata embedded in the file, that every other [f]utility can manage to read? <br><br>Oh yeah. Tags. It defaults to assigning an icon for tags to the first photo that one assigns to the tag by dragging the photo onto the tag. No way to undo this, except to assign it a different icon. There's no "no icon" option to choose once an icon is assigned. And there's no way to disable this behaviour. <br><br><br><br> ------=_Part_18849_14161938.1198019325571--
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