GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322528
Ability to Edit ImageDescription EXIF field
Last modified: 2006-01-11 09:20:19 UTC
there are times when an image has been modified and lost the EXIF tags, when importing it into f-spot it is give the date of the day when it is imported. It would be nice to change this EXIF tag. It would also be very good to be able to add/modify the ImageDescription EXIF tag.
You can modify the ImageDescription EXIF tag by going into Edit mode and typing in the large text-entry located below the photo. The date editing part of this bug is a duplicate of bug 302567, which I will rename to make it easier to search for in the future. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302567 ***
This is not right, i just tried to do it and the ImageDescription EXIF tag is not written to the photo. Maybe the description in the sqlite database is updated, but not the EXIF tag of the photo.
You really should submit two bug reports since these are two completely unrelated issues, and the one that you gave it the title after (date changing) is in fact a duplicate. You are right that it doesn't write that comment to ImageDescription (that was my misunderstanding). It instead writes it to the UserComment field. According to the EXIF (2.1) spec: "ImageDescription A character string giving the title of the image. It may be a comment such as "1988 company picnic" or the like. Two-byte character codes cannot be used. When a 2-byte code is necessary, the Exif Private tag UserComment is to be used." Therefore I believe the decision to use UserComment instead of ImageDescription is a good one as (as I understand it) as the ImageDescription only supports single-byte ASCII, not UTF-8. I doubt ImageDescription will ever be supported in F-Spot for this reason, especially in light of the upcoming XMP support that will make doing so even less attractive. I don't know what to do with this bug now. To me, it's both a duplicate and a WONTFIX. Thanks for submitting it though, it's good to get feedback. I'm renaming it to better indicate what the relevant bug in it is, and I guess we'll keep it open for futehr discussion and for Larry's ultimate decision.
Agreed Gabriel, after renaming, i think this should be Closed as WONTFIX. however it should be noted that there are alot of requests in bugzilla for general EXIF editing functionality so maybe this can be reported somewhere in a bug tracking all the EXIF editing related requests, so that if EXIF editing is introduced, ImageDescription editing can also be done.
closing as "WONTFIX" due to exif tag specifications