image browser and JPEG comments

[paul cooke]

On Monday 07 November 2005 17:12, Todd Slater wrote:
> On 11/7/05, N Chosechu <chosechu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > All I have are more questions. Are the comments stored in the EXIF
> > > tags, or is this completely outside the realm of exif? How do you get
> > > the comments in the image to begin with?
> >
> >  % wrjpgcom -comment text filename
> >
> >  Quoting the man page:
>
> <snip>
>
> >  If I understood correctly, EXIF data are meant to store ancillary data
> > related
> >  to the acquisition. While you can certainly tweak EXIF into accepting
> > comments,
> >  it seems a better idea to use JPEG comments for what they were made for.
>
> I don't know of any app that'll  let you do what you want.

Gwenview, it allows you to print the comments as well, don't know about 
thumbnail sheets though... it's available already in Ubuntu as part of 
Kubuntu... you will have no problems running it in ordinary Ubuntu. Just 
enable whatever repository is required () and find it using synaptic.