There is a lot of information associated with an image. This info is mostly useful for querying and export. F-Spot needs to have an effective way to assign/edit such information.
Some taken from use_cases
Isztwan wants to apply come classification info on a collection of photos he took in Szabor. Such info includes the location, copyright, country etc. He wants this info to follow de-facto standards so when he exports them to web, emails them to his firends they will be able to view such information with their software.
Isztwan copied photos from his friend, who had a camera in Szabor too. Although Isztwan want’s these pictures in the library, he wants to make sure they are marked as authored by somebody else.
Isztwan can attach voice memos to individual pictures on his camera. He wants these voice memos to be asociated with the image and be able to play them back in F-Spot and exported onto the web (optionally).
Isztwan came back from his vacation in Australia with a lot of pictures. His camera doesn’t have a timezone setting and he didn’t bother changing the time in it. Isztwan wants to easily shift the time on all his photos after import.
All information related to the image should be presented here, with a sane interface to edit. Such image attributes are:
Image Name
Image Description
Author/Copyright info
Non-Editable Info
Other things associated with the image that doesn’t need direct editing from the user.
These are the fields that most IPTC editing software includes. Perhaps we should see which of these make sense to expose in the UI?