Re: GQView comments

Eugene Morozov wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> I've started adding support for JPEG comments to GQView 1.4.1 when
> noticed that 1.5.0 is out with support for comments.  I'm a bit
> disappointed that comments are stored in home directory.  What if
> commented file is renamed or moved, other users want to see comments
> or I want to burn CD with photos and preserve comments on it? There's
> support for comments in several image formats, and I always wonder why
> there's no image viewer that allows viewing them or even changing
> them.  What's wrong with them?

The 1.5.x releases are a work in progress - very much open to change. I mainly
wanted to get the search feature "out there" for feedback and testing, hence
1.5.0


If you want the comments to be stored locally with the images, enable the "cache
into .thumbnails" option. (Eventually comments will have their own similar
option, but for now it piggybacks this one.) 

The comments are then stored in a subdirectory as .metadata/filename.jpg.meta
(the subdir name and .meta extension is open for discussion).

If the user does not have write permission there, it falls back to the $HOME
location. Honestly I have not even tested the local .metadata storing of
comments yet.


Patches for adding support to read the comments from an image will be
considered. But, writing comments directly to the file always introduces the
risk of corrupting the original image - at this time the only place GQview
actually looks inside the structure of an image file is to _read_ Exif data.


Point me to a good, even somewhat used image comment format that stores the
information locally to the original file, and I will consider supporting the
format. Perhaps this has improved, but the last comment format I remember was
through the use of hidden descript.ion files (a 4dos feature still supported by
a few windows apps).


Greetings,
John

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