Info Sidebar

This histogram is identical to that shown in the Image Overlay . It can be configured by right-click to modify the display of color or linear/logarithmic scale.

Keywords, together with a flexible search tool, are essential for handling large image collections.

Geeqie has free-form keywords and a hierarchical method of adding new keywords to an image.

The Keyword pane in the sidebar consists of two sections:

The contents of the left-hand box is the data written to file.

The right-hand section has two types of entries :

An example of keyword hierarchy is:

        [ ] animal
        [ ]   mammal
        [ ]     dog
        [ ]     cat
        [ ]   insect
        [ ]     fly
        [ ]     dragonfly
        daytime
        [ ]   morning
        [ ]   afternoon
      

In this example daytime is a Helper, and all the others are keywords. Helpers are not stored in metadata - their purpose is only as an organisational aide.

In the above example if cat is clicked, both mammal and animal will also automatically be checked, and all three transferred to the left hand box, ready for writing as metadata.

If a hierarchy of keywords are checked, and the top-level item then un-checked, all lower level keywords will also be unchecked and will be removed from the left-hand pane.

Irrespective of their position in a hierarchy in the right-hand box, all keywords are written as individual entries into metadata. When metadata for an image is read in, Geeqie will attempt to recreate any hierarchies within the data, and display it accordingly in the right-hand box.

Right-click on the left-hand box allows the selected keywords to be written to the currently selected files - the keywords may be either added to the existing contents, or entirely replace the existing content.

Right-click on the right-hand box allows a connection to be made between a keyword and a mark. The Marking Images section shows how marks and keywords inter-operate.

The ordering of keywords in the right-hand box may be changed by drag-and-drop.

The meta-data write operation for a file is triggered either manually or as defined in Metadata .

If the right-click menu item Revert is executed at any time after a Show all or Collapse all , the keyword layout will be restored to the state prior to the Show all or Collapse all .

The text box at the bottom of the keywords pane is used for autocompletion. Any keywords typed into the standard keyword box or the autocompletion box will be remembered as candidates for future autocompletion.

There are five list panes, whose contents can be configured to display Exif, XMP or IPTC metadata tags. The five panes are:

Any metadata tag can be displayed in any pane - the pane titles merely exist as an organisational aide.

It is possible to reorganise the data displayed by drag-and-dropping any item within a pane, or from one pane to another (although in some cases it makes little sense to do so).

It is also possible to drag new items from the Exif Window onto any pane.

As an aide, in addition to standard metadata tags, Geeqie can call lua scripts and also provides certain pre-formatted tags. These tags are:

Right-clicking on an item opens the context menu:

Geeqie can display maps created by the openstreetmap.org . To use this facility, Geeqie must have been compiled with the --enable-map option.