On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 12:45:27PM +0000, James Freer wrote:
Hi Chris
So on to my final idea, use a laptop with the TV as a remote display. The viewing software runs on the laptop and the person running it can use the laptop keyboard and touchpad/mouse to control things. The only issue is handling the dual display, has anyone got any advice on this front, e.g. ways to have different views on two different displays, etc.
Maybe I have misunderstood you.
No, I think you've understood about right.
For viewing photos I much prefer the simple eog (eye of gnome... and the excellent plugin which allows resizing and batch rename) - shotwell and others create their own album which I don't like. As you mentioned one can just view pics in monthly order - or copy a compilation to a directory for a slide show.
It's almost what I need, a simple "show me the pictures and don't do anything else" app. It isn't installed by default on xubuntu, it may well become my default image view though as it's very straightforward.
However it has one fundamental (for me) disadvantage, once you've navigated to a directory with pictures in you can only see those pictures. There's no way to go 'up and along' to the next day in a month, or to the next month or year.
I want some way of navigating the hierarchy of folders.
What I do is rename all pics from the DCNF**** format to a date-numerical order i.e. pic taken on 8 feb 2015 is 08feb15-1, 08feb15-2 etc. I leave the original in a dir (my camera does 1600 x 800) and the reduced size in a dir below with 08feb14-1a (a representing 700 x 525 which I use on forums), larger for ones I use on desktop wallpaper and the screensaver. I use imagemagick for resizing and watermarking, and xubuntu's Bulk rename for renaming.
My photo directory on a remote drive is simply photos/year/08feb15/pics labelled individually as mentioned above. So any pic is always identifiable by name rather than opening and looking at the metadata. The hierachy you seek could be a dir named by month instead of my 08feb15 and then days under that. I wouldn't say this is a best method but it's what I started doing in 2007 - now with so many pics I'm not going to change.
Hope I've given some ideas anyway.
james