[digiKam-users] Looking for a Lightweight Browser, Cropper and Rating tagger for first pass

[Dougie Nisbet]

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.

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.

My question is two-fold;

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:

    dougie at office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ attr -l 2020-02-10\
    10.56.08.jpg
    Attribute "baloo.rating" has a 1 byte value for 2020-02-10 10.56.08.jpg
    dougie at office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ exiftool * | grep -i
    rating
    dougie at office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$

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.

Thanks

Dougie

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