[Digikam-devel] Would like to have a menu entry to run a script on selected images

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mercredi 3 Août 2005 10:45, Rainer Krienke a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I make my photo with a Nikon D70 and use digikam to manage my photos. One
> thing I have been missing in digikam is a way to run a script on selected
> images.
>
> I need this to extract EXIF information out of the Makernotes (the ISO
> value is only available inside these Makernotes) section of the D70 images
> files and to reinsert the ISO value back into a standard tag that is also
> displayed by digikam.
>
> The problem is that since digikam cannot decode the Nikon makernotes I need
> to run a script (exiftool, http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/)
> that can do so to extract the information I need.  At the moment I do this
> from a shell. Do get easily in the correct directory containing the images
> I want to process I start konqueror from digikam then press F4 to get a
> shell in this directory and then start my script.
>
> This of course works, but the ability to run a script from digikam would be
> much better.
>
> I guess it should not be that hard to code a new menu entry that calls a
> script handing over the names of the selected files to this script.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Thanks
> Rainer

Open a new file in B.K.O please.

Gilles Caulier