Re: on/offline picture management
On su, 2007-12-30 at 02:28 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Speaking of wild ideas, I've started to think that a multi-user media
> storage server would be a pretty neat project to code up. It would
> consist of a system with much disk space and some sort of a database
> system, which would then allow users to add pictures, tag them, etc; and
> the system would store all the metadata it could find in the picture in
> the database somehow, to allow for easy searching. Then users could use
> some sort of graphical client to talk to the server. This could be done
> by use of a digikam and/or f-spot plugin, really. Or just something
> silly, I dunno.
Back when I was working on Lodju (my photo management app from years
ago), I spent a bit (but only a bit) of time thinking about something
like that. It would've been nice, but, really, quite a lot of work, so I
never went in that direction.
> When the sensible part of my brain takes over, however, I realize I've
> already got way too much on my hands, so I'm not going to write
> something like that.
Ditto. Alas.
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