Pixie - photo management app for minimalists

Question

Hey, I started working on a personal app for managing my pictures and generating albums.
Upon talking about it with colleagues it seems a lot of people struggle with the same problems so this may be just what you need.
the idea is pretty simple:
* small webapp (golang backend + angularjs frontend) that you run locally, it loads pictures from given "source" directories (those source directories are basically copies of the DCIM directories of your camera's, phones, etc)
* using vim-style keybinds you can navigate, and add/remove tags to pictures. the UI is supposed to make this as painless as possible.
* also with keybinds, you can spawn your image editor to create edits of pictures (which go in a different dir) and tag those
* finally, after you tagged pictures, you use shellscripts that go over all files matching certain tags and generate albums from those.  For now it just symlinks the originals but I want to add something to resize them as well.
The code is here: https://github.com/Dieterbe/pixie
I had a functioning prototype at one point but then I did an optimisation to only include a subsef of images in the DOM (the active one + 7 before it and after it), and since then "auto scroll to the active picture" is broken.  Because of that issue, the app is not very useable right now.  But I hope that amongst the people who are interested in the app, there's somebody who's good at DOM/js/angularjs stuff, and could help out with the UI side of things.

Answer 1

Trying this out, but I'm completely unfamiliar with Go. Without spending a couple hours wrapping my brain around Go packaging, is there a quick fix for this:
pixie $ go run pixie.go
pixie.go:10:2: cannot find package "github.com/Dieterbe/gothum/workers" in any of:
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/github.com/Dieterbe/gothum/workers (from $GOROOT)
($GOPATH not set)
backend/backend.go:8:2: cannot find package "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3" in any of:
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 (from $GOROOT)
($GOPATH not set)
pixie.go:12:2: cannot find package "github.com/stvp/go-toml-config" in any of:
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/github.com/stvp/go-toml-config (from $GOROOT)
($GOPATH not set)
I've git cloned pixie and gothum, installed go and tmsu-bin (the tmsu package failed installation. This also pulled in go-fuse and go-squlite3). Not sure what to set for $GOPATH and/or $GOROOT. I've got pixie and gothum extracted to ~/.local/tmp.
Looks like an interesting project! Thanks,
Scott
Last edited by firecat53 (2013-11-29 21:16:04)