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Software we'd like to see: contacts and Tracker
Every contact database program I know has a "nickname" field. Today I was thinking that I use the same values in that field for EXIF tags, and what I'd like to see is a plugin (or better, to see it coming out of the box) with a button on each person's contact record. The button would query Tracker, and then launch gthumb or the local equivalent to show images of that person. The button would not display if there were no such images.
Something like this (on Maemo, though the principle is the same for GNOME):
(It's interesting to consider whether the plugin should assemble the list and then pass it to gthumb, or whether gthumb should be extended so that it can be passed a switch to display all pictures known to Tracker with a given tag.)
Of course, Tracker also tracks things other than images, so you could also have buttons for wordprocessor documents, emails, and so on. I could do this (in a while, when I have some time); would any of you want it?
Something like this (on Maemo, though the principle is the same for GNOME):
(It's interesting to consider whether the plugin should assemble the list and then pass it to gthumb, or whether gthumb should be extended so that it can be passed a switch to display all pictures known to Tracker with a given tag.)
Of course, Tracker also tracks things other than images, so you could also have buttons for wordprocessor documents, emails, and so on. I could do this (in a while, when I have some time); would any of you want it?
I would love it!
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(Anonymous) 2011-01-25 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)However you can write a plugin that add a menu action in that dialog doing your stuff.
Xavier Claessens.
There's a brainstorm for that :)
However, I'm not sure that nickname+tag (tag meaning the kind of tags we use to descibe a picture in words, as we do on the N900) is the ideal solution. It relies on a nickname that may not be unique across the devices I use - or across several N900s owned by people who all know each other and have friends in common. It stores the nickname as a tag for everyone to read. Not all the nicknames I use are made for this. ;)
EXIF and XMP know other fields or allow for extensions. A contact database usually holds information that's really unique and not prone to spelling mistakes, such as an email address (or any instand-messaging-ID) Using, say, the MD5 hash of any mail address in such a non-visible field to associate the picture with the person would be unique enough to work even across several devices and for several users. It would keep people's privacy more than a readable nickname (the MD5 hash means nothing)... It's just an awful lot of work to implement.
Read here for the full brainstorm:
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/tag_images_with_people-s_names-from_contacts/
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(Anonymous) 2011-01-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)Contacts being available when geotagging/tagging photos. selecting people straight from the contact list when adding extra tags after taking a picture or from the image viewer.
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