Package: geeqie
Version: 1.0~alpha3-1
Severity: wishlist

The EXIF properties available under "Preferences/Properties" have
three modes: "always show the property", "show only if set", "never
show".  There are far more EXIF properties than those available in
this Preferences page, especially the optional and maker-specific
ones, that have only two display modes: "on" and "off".  These would
benefit greatly from a "Show only if set" option.  Indeed, that could
perhaps be the default behaviour--I can't think of why the optional
and camera-specific tags would ever need to be shown even when not
set.

For example, I shoot with a Nikon SLR, and so I always want to see
what lens I used on my shots ("Image-Specific": "Lens Type" and
"Lens").  But these properties don't exist on point-and-shoot shots,
or shots from non-Nikon-SLR friends, etc... and the blank fields are
ugly.  If I also had another brand SLR, I'd request those fields too,
and they might be called something slightly different.  So I'd see,
perhaps "Lens: ___" and "Lens Series: Canon 18-55mm" in every shot,
which is needlessly cluttered.  Indeed, "Lens: ___" and the other
fields I picked out make for quite some clutter when viewing shots
from P&S cameras for which none of those fields is available.

Thanks for a really excellent piece of software!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages geeqie depends on:
ii  geeqie-common               1.0~alpha3-1 data files for Geeqie
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.22.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.7-18       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.6.4-7      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libexiv2-4                  0.17.1-1     EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation li
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.3-3    GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.16.6-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.11-4    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liblcms1                    1.17.dfsg-1  Color management library
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.20.5-3     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.3-3      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages geeqie recommends:
ii  libjpeg-progs                 6b-14      Programs for manipulating JPEG fil

Versions of packages geeqie suggests:
pn  geeqie-dbg                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  gimp                          2.4.7-1    The GNU Image Manipulation Program
pn  xpaint                        <none>     (no description available)

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