GNOME Photo Collector

gphotocoll [--help] [--version]

GNOME Photo Collector is a tool used to classify and visualize pictures and images of any kind (photos, icons, pixmaps,...). Images references are stored in a PostgreSQL database, to enable easy queries. It's written to be used inside the GNOME desktop environment. For help on using GNOME Photo Collector, see the program documentation in the help menu.

-?, --help

Display available command line options

--version

Display current GNOME Photo Collector version.

Common options used by every GNOME application can also be used with GNOME Photo Collector (see --help for more informations).

To be able to use GNOME Photo Collector , you can access an existing database, or create a new one. To create a new database, just follow a few steps : - if not already existing, create a new password protected user called "postgres". - login on your system, using this "postgres" user. - open a shell, and enter "createdb dbName" to create a new PostgreSQL database called "dbName". - create needed database users, with the PostgreSQL command "createuser", which will guide you through the creation process. - launch GNOME Photo Collector and login with the "postgres" database user (or any database user with admin privileges) ; on the first connection, GNOME Photo Collector will automatically create required tables and components if they are missing. All these database objects are name "gpc_*" so they can be found easilly. - exit GNOME Photo Collector. - launch a graphical PostgreSQL database administration tool, like "pgaccess", and open your database with any database admin user ; then, for every table named "gpc_*", use the "Design" button => "Permissions" tab, and grant access to selected users to these tables (or to the "PUBLIC" user for everyone). - close "pgaccess", and launch GNOME Photo Collector with your habitual database user.

If you can't go completely throught this process and encounter database errors, please start to verify thar the "postmaster" process is actually active with the "-i" option (which enables TCP/IP connections) before sending me any bug report.

http://gpc.sourceforge.net/

Any bugs found should be reported to my personal email adress, at tflorac@free.fr.

When reporting bugs, it is important to include a reliable way to reproduce the bug, version number of GNOME Photo Collector (as well as PostgreSQL, GTK and GNOME), OS name and version, and any relevant hardware specs.

If a bug is causing a crash, it is very useful if a stack trace can be provided. And of course, patches to rectify the bug are even better.

See the AUTHORS file included with GNOME Photo Collector, probably at /usr/doc/gphotocoll/AUTHORS or /usr/share/doc/gphotocoll/AUTHORS.

~/.gnome/gphotocoll GNOME Photo Collector's preferences file.

~/.gnome_private/gphotocoll GNOME Photo Collector's password file.

postmaster(1) psql(1) createdb(1) createuser(1) pgaccess(1)

(c) 2000-2001 Thierry FLORAC and others, see AUTHORS for a list of people.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.