Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 (and digiKam and showFoto)

On 2024-12-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:30:31 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
>

... I just need to manage a collection of 100,000 images ... and
occasionally polish a few of them up a bit.

>
No GUI is going to work efficiently for that. You need automation via
command line/scripting.
>
Tools like ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick are commonly used to do bulk
processing of images on that scale.

I am NOT trying to do bulk processing of images.
I want to find images relating to places, people or times, and add/edit
metadata on one at a time. I do have a set of scripts (written in Perl)
to browse through the collection in a folder tree of
     /pictures/
         yyyy/
           yyyy-mm/
             yyyy-mm-location-or-event
But I don't have the web-2.0 skills (or the time) to write the few
thousand lines of code to switch in and out of image editing through the
web windows.

My /pictures/ lives on my home fedora server, which is remote mounted
from my Win-10 desktop, which has the good display (a 4K TV on my desk)
and digiKam is running in a Fedora image on WSL.

Yes I know, this is politically incorrect in soooo many ways!

--
Lars Poulsen