Re: [PLUG] Quick GUI EXIF Comment field editor?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

Sounds like you want gThumb (Gnome).  I can't swear that it hasn't been 
messed with in newer versions, by my older (Mint17/Ubuntu 14.04 
gthumb-3:3.3.1.is.3.2.7-0ubuntu1) does that very simply.  See 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GThumb.

Shotwell also does this, but that one wants to manage everything for 
you, which may or may not be want you want.  See 
https://www.preining.info/blog/2016/05/shotwell-vs-digikam/.

On 05/29/2016 04:48 PM, Joe Rosato wrote:
> Digikam. You can set it to write data to its database and the the files.
> Look for exiv2, not exif. That is an improvement on exif. It contains a
> bunch of photo tag formats. It still does exif, exif is a subset inside
> exiv2 I think. See exiv2.org <http://exiv2.org>.
>
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2016, 1:11 PM Anthony Martin
> <anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com <mailto:anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Easytags is meant for audio but it can be used to edit Metadata of
>     video files so you may be able to edit photos as well.
>
>
>     On Sun, May 29, 2016, 1:06 PM Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com
>     <mailto:gregsonh@gra-inc.com>> wrote:
>
>         Windows 7 has a handy built-in photo viewer, where you can
>         right-click
>         (or something) on the current photo and type a Comment.  This
>         gets added
>         to a field in the EXIF data that sticks with the photo.
>         The only standard Linux photo app I know of that lets me edit the
>         comment field is GIMP, but that requires you to open photos
>         individually, and .jpeg isn't its native format.
>         Gwenview seems to be intended as an equivalent of the Windows
>         app, but
>         doesn't have the Comment feature.  I can go into Plugins,
>         Images, Edit
>         All Metadata and edit fields there, but doing so doesn't even
>         trigger
>         that the file's been altered (the "Save" function remains
>         grayed-out)
>         and even if I do trigger a change and save the file, the comment
>         isn't
>         retained.
>         I installed DigiKam, but it's a big complicated piece of
>         software, it
>         seems like serious overkill to just do this (and maybe rotate photos
>         snapped sideways).  Is there any quick & easy linux tool for
>         slapping
>         comments onto personal photos in a way that they can then be
>         viewed on
>         all platforms?


Later,
JP
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