Approach to set marks/keywords based on files selected outside of Geeqie about geeqie

[caclark]

Looping through the file list and executing geeqie --remote --list-add:<filepath> will place the images in a new Collection.
[N.B. if filepath is not full or does not exist, Geeqie will crash]

From there it would seem reasonable to select the images in the collection, right-click on Keywords and Add keyword to all selected - but that does not work....

At the moment I am working on changing the way collections are displayed - I am making a collection appear as a pseudo directory in the main window. When that is complete, keywords can be attached to images in the displayed collection pseudo-Dir as in any other directory.

The options --remote --get-selected and variants would be worth implementing. At the moment all that is possible is to move the focus (and selection) to a single image, and the current selection is available only via any plugin.

[xsdg]

That sounds good. I'm thinking about using these as the new actions. Let me know if I should change them, or if there's anything missing:

• --get-selection (returns currently-selected images in the same format as --get-filelist: — filename + class)
• --selection-add:<FILE> (so long as FILE is selectable; adds current image to selection if FILE is omitted)
• --selection-remove:<FILE> (removes current image from selection if FILE is omitted)
• --selection-clear (clears current selection)
• --select:<FILE> (atomic convenience action for clear + selection-add:. So if is not selectable, current selection remains uncleared.)

[caclark]

Looks ok to me.

[caclark]

If you are using a script external to Geeqie, you can use exiv2 to write xmp data.

Marks are held in a simple text file at $HOME/.config/geeqie/marks.

Also, the latest sources have an additional command: geeqie --remote --action:<action>
This can be used to set/reset/toggle marks from the command line.