<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Please take a look at Geeqie. It is light, very customizable and I am pretty sure it can write metadata into JPGs.</div><div dir="auto">You should be able to re-assign shortcuts for star ratings. I use 1,2,3,4,5 (without Ctrl) myself.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dougie Nisbet <dougie@katsura.uk> </div><div>Date: 2020-02-11 7:32 a.m. (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digikam-users@kde.org </div><div>Subject: [digiKam-users] Looking for a Lightweight Browser, Cropper and Rating tagger for first pass </div><div><br></div></div>
<p>I've tried doing everything within digikam, or initially
showfoto, but I find that as a first pass I prefer a quick and
lightweight pre-processing session. I like being able to keep an
eye on the thumbnails, to easily delete and crop, and then copy
into my digikam workspace. <br>
</p>
<p>I've tried many image browsers and at the moment I'm usually
using gthumb. I like its speed and simplicity and easy intuitive
crop options. I've tried it in digikam but it doesn't really work
for me for some reason. The big value of digikam for me at the
moment is its tagging, commenting and geotagging, which I take
more time over.</p>
<p>My question is two-fold;</p>
<p>1. Is there a lightweight image browser that writes rating tags
to the image that digikam would recognise? I thought gwenview was
a perfect fit but I've discovered it doesn't write the rating tag
to the file's exif data, or at least, not in a way I or digikam
recognise. You need to use the attr command - not something I'm
familiar with:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>dougie@office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ attr -l
2020-02-10\ 10.56.08.jpg <br>
Attribute "baloo.rating" has a 1 byte value for 2020-02-10
10.56.08.jpg<br>
dougie@office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ exiftool * | grep
-i rating<br>
dougie@office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ <br>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>2. Is there a way I can assign the rating shortcut in digikam to
be a single keypress? Currently I have it set as
Ctrl-<rating> which is ok, but I find it surprisingly fiddly
when I'm browsing a large number of new images and wish to quickly
assign ratings to them as they go. Ideally, something like
Numeric-<keynum> would be great but I can't get that to
work.</p>
<p> Thanks</p>
<p>Dougie<br>
</p>
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