Looking for a Picture Management Program#

[Chris G]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 10:45:42PM -0500, Mumia W. wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 10:44:57PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> F-Spot _does_ organise chronologically. For example, my directory
> >> structure for the start of the year looks like this:
> >> [...]
> > I suspect that digikam can parallel that almost exactly but it's not
> > what I'm after really, thanks all the same.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure of what you're after, but have you looked at the most 
> simplistic of image management programs--nautilus?
> 
> The nautilus file manager will allow you to arrange folder entries 
> manually, and nautilus can display thumbnails.
> 
You're right, that does actually come very close to what I want, in
addition when I click on an image it pops up in "Eye of Gnome" which
gives me a viewer for the images.

There are two significant issues though:-

    The tree view for navigating through the folders *doesn't* get
    sorted the same way as the browser page.  So, even if I have
    manually ordered the images in the browser the tree view remains
    in alphabetic order.

    Arranging the icons manually is painful as it's *totally* manual,
    i.e. the icons don't move into a regular grid when you move one,
    you end up with a higgledy piggledy mess with icons on top of each
    other, I can't see a way to arrange them tidily in a new (manual) order.


My preferred file manager (thunar) also does a fair job, I'll have a
further play with file managers, thanks for the idea.

-- 
Chris Green