pyGTKtalog
Pygtktalog is Linux/FreeBSD program for indexing CD, DVD, BR or directories on filesystem. It is similar to gtktalog or gwhere. There is no coincidence in name of application, because it's meant to be replacement (in some way) for gtktalog, which seems to be dead project for years.
Current version is 2.0.
FEATURES
Scan for files in selected media
Support for grouping files depending on file name (expected patterns in file names)
Get/generate thumbnails from EXIF and other images
Store selected EXIF tags
Add/edit description and notes
Fetch comments for images made in gThumb
Add/remove unlimited images to any file or directory
And more :)
Frontends
New version of pyGTKtalog was meant to use multiple interfaces.
First for the new incarnation of pyGTKtalog is… command line tool for accessing catalog dbs. With cmdcatalog.py it's possible to:
create new catalog
update it
list
find files
fsck (for maintenance for orphaned thumbs/images)
gtktalog.py. This is written from scratch frontend in pygtk. Still work in progress.
Requirements
pyGTKtalog requires python and following libraries:
python 3, tested on python 3.6
sqlalchemy 1.2 or higher
pygtk 2.24 (only for gtktalog.py, will not work with python3)
pillow for image manipulation
exifread for parse EXIF information
It may work on other (lower) version of libraries, and it should work with higher versions of libraries. GTK3 support will follow.
pyGTKtalog extensively uses external programs in unix spirit, however there is small possibility of using it Windows (probably with limitations) and quite big possibility to run it on other sophisticated unix-like systems (i.e. BeOS/ZETA/Haiku, QNX or MacOSX).
Programs that are used: * mencoder (provided by mplayer package) * montage, convert from ImageMagick
For development process following programs are used:
INSTALATION
You don't have to install it if you don't want to. You can just change current directory to pyGTKtalog and simply run:
$ paver run
That's it. Alternatively, if you like to put it in more system wide place, all you have to do is:
put pyGTKtalog directory into your destination of choice (/usr/local/share, /opt or ~/ is typical bet)
copy pyGTKtalog shell script to /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or in other place, where PATH variable is pointing or you feel like.
then modify pyGTKtalog line 6 to match right pygtktalog.py directory
Then, just run pyGTKtalog script.
Technical details
Catalog file is plain sqlite database (optionally compressed with bzip2). All images are stored in location pointed by db entry in config table - it is assumed, that images directory will be placed within the root directory, where the main db lies. Generated sha512 hash from image file itself. There is small possibility for two identical hash for different image files. However, no images are overwritten. Thumbnail filename for each image is simply concatenation of image filename in images directory and '_t' string.
There is also converter from old database to new for internal use only. In public release there will be no other formats so it will be useless, and deleted. There are some issues with converting. All thumbnails will be lost. All images without big image will be lost. There are serious changes with application design, and I decided, that is better to keep media unpacked on disk, instead of pack it every time with save and unpack with open methods. New design prevent from deleting any file from media directory (placed in ~/.pygtktalog/images). Functionality for exporting images and corresponding db file is planned.
DEVELOPMENT
Several tools has been used to develop pyGTKtalog.
Paver
I've choose Paver as make equivalent. Inside main project directory there is pavement.py script, which provides several tasks, that can be helpful in a work with sources. Paver is also used to generate standard setup.py.
LICENSE
This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3. See the LICENCE file in top-level directory.