"thumbnail"-type application - main

9 Nov 2008


      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.
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Date: 09-Nov-08                                       Time: 09:07:15
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