peterlevi
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2 years ago So, Variety already collects as much possible metadata for downloaded images as is provided by the different sources. We insist that there is at least some author credit and link to the author in Variety's menu (with the notable exception of Wallhaven, which does not provide sufficient author credit). For some sources, also an extended description is saved in the image as EXIF data.
Variety currently offers no place to show the metadata (and it's not always present), but you can always open the image in an image viewer (directly from Variety's menu) and look at the EXIF metadata there.
Or you can do it in the command-line, please see https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/issues/481#issuecomment-1107841975.
I agree an option to show this info directly on the image (similar to how we show quotes) makes sense.
Version of Variety you are using 0.8.4
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I get shown a lot of great images, and would love to know more about them - where it's from, who took it, and in the cases of landscapes - where in the world it is. There is no way to get this information at present.
Describe the solution you'd like From a user perspective, an option to enable metadata display (similar to "wise quotes"), and the ability to select at a high level which content to display there (Source, Attribution/Artist, Location, Description/Comments, etc).
There would then need to be a way to optionally add a metadata component to the sources, and map it's content to the above tags. For some sources this would be impossible, and that's fine, but for many it would be quite straightforward - EXIF tags in some cases.