[Kde-imaging] gwenview, digikam, keywords and metadata

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Wednesday 05 December 2012 16:10:06 Kristian Rink a écrit :
> > I also wonder if it would be possible to ask Nepomuk which files had
> > metadata changes since a given date. If you have this information it is
> > possible to implement an incremental syncing. You may want to get in touch
> > with the Nepomuk developers to know if this is possible.
> 
> Hmmm, yes, this sounds reasonable. I'll see whether this is possible about
> that. Best would possibly be having some way to hook into Nepomuk Storage
> Service, triggering some external actions after(?) image metadata has been
> stored... Possibly this would be even cleaner than forcing applications such
> as gwenview to take care of such modifications itself.

Would be really nice, as it would make it possible to get this to work with 
other applications like Dolphin, I am a bit concerned about how applications 
would react when they notice the file they just tagged changed.

> > > stored in there in case any of the image files gets copied or moved, at
> > > worst while Nepomuk/KDE is not running (Unix shell, some other desktop
> > > environment, ...)? This seems like just begging for inconsistency. But
> > > possibly this is a bit off-topic here. :)
> > 
> > Another good question for the Nepomuk developers :)
> 
> I will try. Generally, this seems sort of a difficult issue, possibly only
> to be resolved by running a service such as Nepomuk directly during system
> startup. Though Nepomuk seems to come with a File Watcher service which is
> capable (to some degree?) of handling file system changes, it possibly
> won't handle changes done to files using the unix shell while Nepomuk
> services are offline... ;)

Indeed. We need a Nepomuk file system.

Aurélien