[ubuntu-studio-devel] File Manager

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:51:07 +0200, Grant Frank Burton wrote:
>I'm looking at a folder of photos and I want to see the creation date
>but the options not there. I was sure I see that before. Is that
>missing or am I just crazy? I copied a photo and it change all the
>dates to today. Is something wrong?

A FM by default should show the file dates, not the image creation time.
FMs also can display the creation time.

CLI
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exiftools
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[rocketmouse at archlinux winOS]$ ls -hAl vorgarten30mai2015-1.jpg 
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 197K Jun  2 17:56 vorgarten30mai2015-1.jpg
[rocketmouse at archlinux winOS]$ exiftool vorgarten30mai2015-1.jpg | grep Create
Create Date                     : 2015:05:30 20:09:59
Create Date                     : 2015:05:30 20:09:59.191

FMs
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Thunar
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Select the pic, right click > Properties > tab Image

Rodent
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Select the pic, right click > File > Properties

SpaceFM
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I suspect you need to make a tool first.

$ cat /usr/local/bin/exiftool-wrapper 
#!/bin/bash
exiftool "$@"
echo -e "\nPush a key to exit."
read -n1 char
echo
exit

Typ:     Command
Name:    exiftool
Key:     Escape
Icon:    emblem-photos
Command: roxterm -e exiftool-wrapper %f

Select the pic and push the Escape-Key

Thunar, Rodent and SpaceFM provide to delete by keystroke, other FMs
usually just move to trash. I prefer CLI over FMs, but from the FMs
SpaceFM is my favourite FM.

Perhaps this topic fits better to the user mailing list.