[Solang-devel] Re: [Tracker] nikon project

[Adrien Bustany]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:12:54 +0200, Alexey Fisher
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Debarshi.
> 
> Am Montag, den 22.03.2010, 23:09 +0200 schrieb Debarshi Ray:
>> > 1) i wrote small commandline tool in c if you point it to DCIM folder
>> > it
>> > will output tagged list of paths. Is it what you mean?
>> 
>> What about a small application that imports photos (or videos, etc.)
>> from cameras, which apart from simply copying over the files also
>> deciphers the information from the DCIM folder and inserts the
>> relevant things into Tracker? The file copying part is already done by
>> gthumb-importer, etc., but not the second part.
> 
> Before i start actual coding i need to know what is where located. I
> mean if do DCIM interpreter, should it be located in tracker-extractor
> or in photo downloader. It seems like it will be better than interpreter
> will be inside of the tracker and downloader should only update file
> paths in tracker database.
I think Debarshi thinks about a stand alone, tracker enabled photo
importer.
That is, it would be a regular binary (invoked by the desktop environment
when a camera device is detected) which would import the photos to a
standard
location (presumably the XDG dir), and insert extracted/inferred metadata
into Tracker. Ideally, the frontend and the backend would be separate, a
dbus service with two frontends (gtk/qt based) would be awesome. You could
even propose it as a spec for XDG when you get something done.

> 
>> > 2) i thing solang teem can do it :)
>> 
>> I don't think it is a good idea to have a 'camera importer' inbuilt in
>> Solang. We used to have this earlier, but it is much better to have a
>> stand alone application (not tied to a particular photo manager) that
>> benefits the entire desktop.
> 
> No no, i'm not about 'camera importer' here. Please take a look at the
> screenshots at this page:
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=d57752n_27ddtp6qzj
> 
> Regards,
> Alexey
> 
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