"thumbnail"-type application
Hi Folks, 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. The main directory names are rather generic (e.g. a regional location, or names of friends or family). The subdirectories are fairly specific and can descend to very spcific (e.g. a sub-sub-sub-directory with just a date, like "2007.03.05"). I'd like to be able to whistle up screenfuls of thumbnails, possible grouped thematically, with a property like being able to "hover" the mouse over a thumbnail and get a little pop-up with the date of the photo and a brief description. There's an implication, therefore, that there's a kind of basic database engine behind it, together with the "pop-up on hover" capacility. There's no shortage of applications capable of making a bunch of thumbnails (especially from a single directory), but I'm not aware of a light-weight application with the above capability. Gthumb does (clumsily) the sort of thing I'm after, so I could think of using it on machines with Gnome, but not, e.g. on KDE machines. Ideally, in a main directory I would do something like find . -name '*.jpg' -print > image.list edit the file image.list to remove uwanted stuff, and then submit this file to the thumbnail viewer. As an example of scale, one major directory has 4 principal subdirectories hanging off it, with sundry sub-dirs of these, and a total of 170 images. Another is similar, with 150 images. On could probably write something suitable in Tcl/Tk, butit would be nice to find one ready-made! Suggestions welcome. With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Nov-08 Time: 09:07:15 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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There's no shortage of applications capable of making a bunch of thumbnails (especially from a single directory), but I'm not aware of a light-weight application with the above capability.
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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.
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 ... ). Worth bearing in mind, though. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Nov-08 Time: 13:09:59 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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.
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 06:53 +0000, Ten wrote:
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.
Or if you don't want to write a simple script to do it, download an evil one http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/development/bpgallery.html :)
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:41:38PM +0000, 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?
I found that Picasa didn't *quite* do it for me, it wasn't as closely connected with the real directory structure as I wanted. I've now settled on Digikam which is (to my mind) F-prot but better. It's nominally a KDE application but seems to work well in other environments (e.g. gnome and xfce). -- Chris Green
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:07:18 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> allegedly wrote:
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.
The main directory names are rather generic (e.g. a regional location, or names of friends or family). The subdirectories are fairly specific and can descend to very spcific (e.g. a sub-sub-sub-directory with just a date, like "2007.03.05").
I'd like to be able to whistle up screenfuls of thumbnails, possible grouped thematically, with a property like being able to "hover" the mouse over a thumbnail and get a little pop-up with the date of the photo and a brief description.
Ted A nice lightweight application that I use for creating web albums is "albumshaper" (albumshaper.sourceforge.net). It won't do everything you want, but it comes reasonably close. You can create albums with annotated pictures (but you have to edit the text yourself). The package provides for export to a variety of album styles. An example of an album I created is at http://webcam.baldric.net/mallory08/ The app automatically creates thumbnails. If you doubleclick a thumbnail, you get the full picture. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:07:18 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> allegedly wrote:
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.
Addendum Ted - I've just searched the ubuntu apt store using the term "album" in synaptic and got an interesting list of possibles. Assuming you have a debian based distro, it might be worth you taking a look. There are some database driven apps as well as simpkle perl scripts to generate thumbnails etc. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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