Regarding Tagging for Image Docker

[Sven Langkamp]

2011/8/5 శ్రీ కాంత్ తియ్యగూర <srikanth.tulasiram at gmail.com>

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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Silvio Heinrich <plassy at web.de> wrote:
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>>> Am 04.08.2011 15:54, schrieb శ్రీ కాంత్ తియ్యగూర:
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>>> > Hi Silvio,
>>> >
>>> >        I am Srikanth Tiyyagura, working on  GSOC project " Resource
>>> > Management and Tagging for Krita." I heard from boud, that there is a
>>> > need of tagging support for image docker. Can you explain me what you
>>> > need actually ?
>>> >
>>> >    I seen the image docker widget where there are two tabs one is
>>> > browsing and another is image tab. Where can we place the textEdit bars
>>> > so that we can add, delete tags and search images using tags ?
>>> >
>>> > And also can you explain me in brief about image docker and various
>>> tabs
>>> > purpose ?
>>> >
>>> Well it is this: Artists often need a reference image to know how
>>> certain things are painted. I made the image docker exactly for this.
>>> You have the first tab where you can browse your hard drive for your
>>> reference images than double click on them and they will open in the
>>> second tab. There is nothing more to it.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if the artist is able to tag his reference images.
>>> But thats is different to the preset tagging since the images normally
>>> don't belong to krita the user is free to move them to any place he
>>> likes. I only can think of two solutions here... we write the tags to
>>> the images or we copy the image in a directory that belongs to krita.
>>>
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>> That should already be done by Nepomuk, I think. Nepomuk should be able to
>> track if a file was moved.
>> Additionally there is the Metadata Writeback gsoc project that tries to
>> save metadata to files (no idea what the status is).
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> If we want to write things to images - we have to use nepomuk
>     But in the case of nepomuk without writeback support -- if we change an
> image to another folder, then tags are no more attached to the image.
> Implementation of Writeback support to nepomuk will take some more time ( on
> seeing the status page of work being done ).
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I just checked that and the tags are are still attached to the file after
it's moved. Of course that doesn't work anymore if the file is in a remote
location.


> Copy images in directory - we can use either nepomuk or XML
>

If you copy the image we are back at resources. The idea of the image docker
seems to be more about accessing some collection of image from the
filesystem so I don't think doing a copy would be good in that case.
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