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shotwell package

  1. Bug #579804
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 579804

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) wrote :

@coffeemonk,
Thanks for your feedback, and no worries - we like hearing what our users really want. :) Clearly you'd like Shotwell to be able to store tags inside RAW files. I think that would be great, though as I mentioned above there are some technical challenges above. In particular, the exiv2 library used by Shotwell can't yet write metadata into many RAW formats. That may change, though; for example, there's a feature request to extend exiv2 to write metadata into Canon RAW CR2 files and it looks as if it may be implemented soon (see http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/show/635). In any case, I hope we can add this capability to Shotwell at some point.

By the way, F-Spot can't write metadata into RAW files either (at least not into CR2 files, which I just tried).

@Bruno,
I agree: it would be great to give this user this option. When we begin development of Shotwell 0.7 in a couple of weeks we'll think about this as a possibility.