Congratulations on v5!

[Phil Harvey]

-you probably mean "Quick" button in the 2nd row.

Yes. Typo.

As I can see, you don't find much use for "Custom" view

Not true.  I was suggesting renaming it to "Workspace 2" and adding the edit feature to it as well.

And Quick view can't serve that purpose, because there, tag names can't be ID prefixed.

Oh.  I didn't realize this.  My idea won't work then.  I had thought the Custom view was essentially the same as the Quick view, but without the edit feature.  I should play with this some more to see what other differences there are.

I allways close programs before exiting Windows -habbit from old days probably . As it is now, GUI saves settings/state only when "properly" closing. Right now, I have no idea, how to catch "log off" event (never needed that), but I will look into this.
Added: Log off issue solved -so GUI will save settings in next update.

Thanks!!

- Phil

[chcoste]

Thanks for the work at an other version !

The rename file option in version 4.27 (where can I it download now ?) was really great !!!
The choice for datetimeoriginal and datecreated and datemodified, with format YYYYMMDD_HHMMS and other was simply and great, but I Think only for non recursive folder.

Thank for your work !
Charles-André Coste
(If you want an help for a french version... )

[BogdanH]

Hi,

You can get GUI v4.27 here. However, I expect rename option will be in next update 

Bogdan

[degentd]

Thank you Bodan for the new version, for all your efforts made developing this great piece of software.  I'm checking regularly your site for every little change in your software and hardly waiting any kind of updates!

Regards, zoli

[BogdanH]

Hi zoli,

Welcome in forum and thank you for kind words about GUI.
I expect to make next version available when I finish "rename" option -at that point, GUIv5 will have all "important" options which already existed in old GUI.

Bogdan

[Phil Harvey]

Version 5.03 is great!  I really like the changes since 5.00.  The popup menus are a lot cleaner, and I think the Workspace name makes things easier to understand for the first-time user.

This is a very useful tool.

I have a couple of questions:

1) Why does the "Show Composite data" apply only to the "Custom" view?  I would have expected this to apply only to the "All" view, which would allow you to choose which custom tags you wanted shown in "Custom".  Also, why "Show Composite data" and not "Show Composite tags"?

2) I managed to confuse myself a number of times trying to add/remove tags from the "Custom" view.  Maybe this is something I just have to get used to, but when I right click on a tag and select "Remove tag from Custom view", it isn't the tag that I right-clicked on that is removed.  Instead, it is the last tag that was left-clicked.  I had a bug report all prepared until I figured out what was happening.  Would it cause problems if a right click first changed the selected tag before raising the popup menu?

- Phil

[BogdanH]

Hi Phil,

Agree on popup menu being cleaner now -and you didn't miss icons I've added there, did you? 

1) Right now, I can think of two reasons:

• I don't see "composite" tags as "real" tags, because their values are calculated from various metadata sections/tags -they appear like metadata "summary" to me. So, in my view,  these tags belong outside of "real" metadata.
• At first (old GUI versions), composite tags were listed in view ALL, but "ALL" list can be quite long in some cases...

I don't look at composite tags that often, so I'm open to suggestions: anywhere, except in Exif, Xmp or Iptc -because these three views allow "Add to Workspace" option.
To be honest, I'm still not sure about "Custom" view.. it could also be used as template for csv file creation, or similar... we'll see.
About "Show composite data" vs "Show composite tags"... well, I've just picked something, without thinking any further. For me, it has similar meaning, but I can hardly judge that -you're lucky I didn't choose my language . I will change that. Added: Done.

2) Yes, first select, then right-click... I don't like that either, but my brains refuse to admit that, because it means: do something! . I will see how to change that. Added: Done (much better now)

Thank you for comments,
Bogdan

[Phil Harvey]

Agree on popup menu being cleaner now -and you didn't miss icons I've added there, did you? 

Yes, I saw these.  They look nice but I didn't look too closely at them yet.

I'm open to suggestions: anywhere, except in Exif, Xmp or Iptc -because these three views allow "Add to Workspace" option.

Agreed.  It makes sense if you can't add these to the Workspace.

My vote is to move the Custom Composite tags to the All view, and allow them to be added to the Custom view individually by the user.

Edit: I meant "Composite tags" above, but you knew that already.

To be honest, I'm still not sure about "Custom" view.. it could also be used as template for csv file creation, or similar... we'll see.

I like the custom view.  As you said, All is very long sometimes, and the Custom view lets you pick out exactly the tags that are interesting to you.

About "Show composite data" vs "Show composite tags"... well, I've just picked something, without thinking any further. For me, it has similar meaning, but I can hardly judge that -you're lucky I didn't choose my language . I will change that.

Thanks.   It think it makes some sense to have similar terminology between ExifTool and the GUI.

2) Yes, first select, then right-click... I don't like that either, but my brains refuse to admit that, because it means: do something! . I will see how to change that. Added: Done (much better now)

Thanks again!  I'm glad you agree with this.  At this point I'm still making suggestions about things that confuse me as a new user.   So feel free to ignore any of my suggestions if they don't make sense to you.

- Phil

[BogdanH]

Ok, composite tags will move (back) to view ALL -after all, there shuld be "all" . And I absolutely agree about terminology!!

Suggestion from you (as non regular Windows user) are even of greater value, because you "expect" by intuition. Ok, this right-click selection thing should be done from the first day, because all Win applications work that way.

Bogdan

[coz]

Bogdan/Phil,

The two of you are an amazing team.  Thanks for all you do!

Chris

[Phil Harvey]

Chris:  You're welcome!

Bogdan: I played some more with the GUI.  Those menu icons are really nice.  I didn't appreciate it before, but I realize now that is definitely one reason that the popup menus felt so nice.  They even make sense when I actually pay attention to them, which is saying something because I know how difficult it is to compose meaningful icons that are so small.

- Phil

[BogdanH]

Hi,

Chris: I'm just trying to convince Phil to switch to Windows 

Phil: I've decided for making icons, because there are three "Add tag to.." menu options which required attention and icons somehow make choice faster. Being that small, I had to choose Picasso look 

Bogdan