Request recommendations for photo management app. [Solved]

[Fitzcarraldo]

I would be grateful for advice on which photo management application would best suit my needs, as explained below.

I have several thousand digital photographs stored on my laptop's HDD in many different directories. I would like to be able to easily do as many as possible of the following:

a) View thumbnails of the photos in their original directories (i.e. I do not want the photo management application to create any new directories and import photos into it).
b) Add keywords to each photo.
c) Search photos by keyword(s).
d) Edit EXIF data in a photo to change date and time if the date and time were set wrongly in the camera at the time the photo was taken.
e) View photos in chronological order.
f) Add notes against each photo.

Items a, b and c are essential for me; the others would be nice to have.

Any advice gratefully received. Thanks in advance.

[atila]

Hello Fitzcarraldo,

Have you tried Picasa?
Best regards,

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for your reply, atila. No, I haven't tried it yet, as I'm hoping to get some comparisons from people before plumping for a package. I have read a little about Picassa and it looks like it might be almost what I'm after, but I read that it cannot do Item d on my list. Is that the case, do you know? Does it do everything else?

[atila]

I think you are right about your item d, not sure at all. In any case, it does the other points.
Btw, picasa comes as a binary in portage, so you'll install it in a couple of minutes.
Best regards,

[joost]

Picasa.

I't pre-installed on sabayon.

[atila]

You are right for sabayon 3.4, I was using 3.3 due to some issues with compiz...

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for the replies so far.

How about digiKam and F-Spot? They are both listed as photo managers. Has anyone any experience using them? Do they do any/all of the things in the list I posted earlier? How do they compare with each other?

I'm looking for some advice on which is the best one to go for.

[joost]

Just open Picasa and see its the best yourself.

[dunsurfin]

Thanks for the replies so far.

How about digiKam and F-Spot?

Neither will do what you want. Gwenview will allow you to edit exif data so a combination of picasa and gwenview will do all you require.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for your useful reply, dunsurfin.

Well, I fired up Picasa and it started going through my HDD looking for photos, which started to appear in the Picasa window, but then Picasa suddenly displayed a message along the lines of "Picasa cannot continue and will close" (I cannot remember the precise words as I am not running SL at the moment) and closed/vanished.