On Sunday 09 November 2008 13:10:01 Ted Harding wrote:
On 09-Nov-08 12:41:38, Tim Green wrote:
2008/11/9 Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk:
I'm looking for an application (preferably light-weight) which sould do the following kind of thing. I have a good number of images (*.jpg) stored in sub-directories of sundry directories.
I know it isn't Free software, but have you considered Picasa from Google? Tim.
Thanks for the tip, Tim! Now that I visit the Picasa website and look at its features:
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93183
I see that the "Captions" capability would do pretty well what I'm looking for. But there's also a lot of stuff that I wouldn't have much use for! (At least, not as foreseen at present, but you never know ... ).
To me, full-scale photo management applications would seem like overkill.
If you do decide to take this route though, and want something a little lighter on its feet than picasa, but with similar functionality to it and kde-able, you might like to have a look at digikam. I use digikam with great success for that, and other tasks, and find it a bit lighter than f-spot and Picasa.
To be honest, I wouldn't consider any of them lightweight, and for your purposes it will probably be quicker to write some simple scripts to create an html index of a directory tree, or use something like gthumb.
As a matter of interest, for nice integration you might even look at konqueror's "create image gallery" functionality - it is probably scriptable with dcop and with light modification could produce what you want, I imagine.