[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@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@office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ exiftool * | grep -i rating
dougie@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

[AndriusWild]

Please take a look at Geeqie. It is light, very customizable and I am pretty sure it can write metadata into JPGs.

You should be able to re-assign shortcuts for star ratings. I use 1,2,3,4,5 (without Ctrl) myself.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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From: Dougie Nisbet <[hidden email]>

Date: 2020-02-11 7:32 a.m. (GMT-07:00)

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

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@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@office:/store/media/images/2020/02/10$ exiftool * | grep -i rating
dougie@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