GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 699297
Image Properties should prominently show Title and Comments
Last modified: 2021-06-19 08:46:03 UTC
Shotwell can save a "title" and "comments" in the image metadata. This can be seen in eog's Image Properties' Details tab, as Image Data: User Comment and XMP IPTC: dc:title[1] The Shotewell developers seem to have given some thought to what to use for title and comments. http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellArchMetadataWriting Assuming that they are indeed using appropriate metadata for this, it would make sense to show these commonly-used pieces of information more prominently, for instance in the General tab.
As there are several possibilities to save a comment in an image file, this will need some mechanism that implements a fallback through the various tags/metadata systems in the style of XMP -> Exif -> JPEG/PNG comment.
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