[kwlug-disc] Photo Managment
Sandeep Johri
sandeepjohri at rogers.com
Sat Feb 9 05:34:16 EST 2019
What I rely on is the ability of the distro to identify packages that
are not needed and removing them using 'autoremove'. I run Debian - not
sure if this is distro specific or available across all flavors of Linux.
I run XFCE and have Digikam installed.
From:
Sandeep Johri
On 2019-02-08 9:13 p.m., Ron Singh wrote:
> I got me some learning to do on the "purge" parameters -- I am just
> so hyper-paranoid that more than what came will go away.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:57 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com
> <mailto:kb at 2bits.com>> wrote:
>
> If you are running a Debian derived system, then you can
> experiment as much as you want
> with DigiKam and any other KDE based app.
>
> $ sudo aptitude install blah
> ... [pulls in a lot of stuff]
>
> ... test it out
>
> $ sudo aptitude purge blah
>
> Everything goes back to how it was before you installed the
> application.
>
> So, not really a concern, and no need to install a KDE desktop
> just to test ...
>
> I run a couple of KDE programs on Xubuntu without issues.
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:53 PM Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com
> <mailto:zixiekat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the warning. It doesn't matter too much. I run
> vCenter, so I'll just spin up a new Kubuntu. I usually stick
> with Cinnamon, Mate, or XFCE normally.
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:22 PM Ron Singh
> <ronsingh149 at gmail.com <mailto:ronsingh149 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Digikam brings along a whack of KDE dependencies with it
> -- not sure if you are using a distro with the KDE desktop.
>
> You might want to try Digikam packaged as an AppImage
> first to see if it does what you need.
>
> See:
> https://www.digikam.org/download/
> The download options on the upper-left-hand of your screen
> offers 32-bit and 64-bit AppImages of DigiKam.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:02 PM Colin Mackay
> <zixiekat at gmail.com <mailto:zixiekat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks folks!
>
> I'll check out that reddit group, but DigiKam might do
> what I need...
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:31 PM Chamunks
> <chamunks at gmail.com <mailto:chamunks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> A very helpful resource that I've found for
> self-hosted solutions which may lead you down the
> path to a solution would be
> https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted they have an
> incredible and growing list of options for FOSS
> self-hosted options for everything. I remember a
> number of things hitting the sub with image
> hosting and organization in mind without having to
> do a full NextCloud Installation.
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:46 AM Sandeep Johri
> <sandeepjohri at rogers.com
> <mailto:sandeepjohri at rogers.com>> wrote:
>
> I use Digikam to manage my photos. May be
> worth a try if you haven't looked at it as yet
> (https://www.digikam.org/)
>
> From:
> Sandeep Johri
>
> On 2019-02-06 11:01 p.m., Chris Craig wrote:
>> It's been a while since I used it but I know
>> that GThumb used to have a bunch of options
>> for bulk operations, including using exif
>> data. One case that turned out really well
>> was when I had renamed a bunch of pictures I
>> was having printed off with the date as the
>> file name - which ended up being printed on
>> the back of the photo.
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 22:17, Colin Mackay
>> <zixiekat at gmail.com
>> <mailto:zixiekat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am looking for suggestions or ideas on
>> how to manage photos.
>>
>> Currently I have a FreeNAS box with about
>> 250GB of pictures (41,000 files),
>> semi-organized into folders, but with the
>> date stamps all being accurate, from what
>> I can tell.
>>
>> I'd like some way to re-organize all the
>> pictures, by date, and be able to add a
>> description in the exif information. I
>> know I could probably create a shell
>> script to move the pictures around, but I
>> was hoping there'd be some Open Source
>> management system that can help me do it.
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
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