Hi all, As some of you may remember, I started working on a metadata/parasite editor a long time ago (bug #61499, bug #56443, bug #94416) but lost most of it in a disk crash during a backup (doh!). Since my new digital camera is begging for better metadata support in the GIMP (starting with the EXIF orientation tag, bug #121810) I re-started that work from scratch and built a new metadata viewer and editor. I worked on that while I was away from the 'net so I did not announce it earlier, but I tried to design the viewer/editor according to what had been discussed on this list and in Bugzilla since about three years. The relatively new thing is that I based almost everything on the XMP model (Extensible Metadata Platform from Adobe, based on RDF/XML) because XMP supersedes IPTC (used by Photoshop 6 and earlier) and includes EXIF (used by almost all digital cameras and supported by many programs). The code is not ready yet and I don't expect to have time to make a version ready for testing before next week, but I created a page that describes what it does, including some screenshots: http://wilber.gimp.org/~raphael/metadata/ I would like some feedback about that, and any help about the open issues mentioned in the page would be more than welcome. Among the open issues, there are a few on which any GIMP contibutor could comment: naming of parasites, how to support the old "gimp-comment" parasite, should it support saving the old IPTC format without XMP? But there are also some more technical issues for which I would need some help from GIMP/gtk+ hackers: how to handle multiple language variants for some properties, how to support viewing and entering of these in the treeview widget? Even for the basic case, how should I support multi-line input in the treeview? If I am heading in the wrong direction or if I have overlooked something, please tell me. I don't want to waste my time doing the wrong things if I don't get any feedback. -Raphaël
