Does anyone know an app that allows to get an overview about all pictures of a folder, including all subfolders?
I would like to browse through my filesystem and then have an overview of all pictures of the current folder, like Adobe Bridge (on a Mac).
Not an application but an useful tool to recursively show the pictures of a folder and a subfolder:
feh --recursive --auto-zoom --geometry 1600x1000 ~/Pictures
It can also generate an image with the thumbnails:
feh -r -i ~/Pictures -O index.png
It is not exactly what you (and I) were looking for, but it is the only option I have found in Linux at the moment to recursively explore the images of a directory.
Shotwell Photo Manager
Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others.
It is installed by default. Import your main folder (and all sub folders automatically) via File → Import from Folder. I also suggest to check "Watch library directory for new files" in Edit → Preferences → Library.
try digikam. (sudo apt-get install digikam)
It allows you to browse your filesystem, and it shows the number of pictures available rekursively for each folder. You dont need to import the pictures, but digikam will take (maybe hours) some time to scan your filesystem
Nomacs goes in this direction, but is not exactly what you asked.
I had the very same question for a long time now since the best organization of pictures is a tree directory, not a set of tags in database you risk to loose whenever you reinstall your linux.
Nomacs has an option in File menu called "Scan folder recursive" that enables jumping from a subfolder to another, in view mode, in slideshow mode or whatever. It doesn't show all the thumbnails in a same place though.
In panels menu, "Thumbnail preview" allows you to view very quickly your folder contents. It just needs a browsing option that shows folders next to another in a timeline fashion. Let's make a feature request, the devs are quite responsive :)
For those who are looking for a more GUI solution, these days gThumb Image Viewer implements the sub folder view.
it's question from 5 years ago but nobody noticed this solution - nor here nor in top 3 google answers to this question - so here it goes:
just use VLC - it's available for bunch of distros and on ubuntu in left "tool" box of VLC you have option: "my pictures" - it takes all pictures form your /home/user/pictures/ (including sub-folders) and plays it as slideshow
hope it helps!
You should be able to just do a search for specific file types in the file manager (Nautilus). Look for the option to search for image file types.
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus-searching.html.en
Try this :
exiftool -ext .JPG -fast -p '$directory/$filename;$Keywords' -qq -r -m . 2> /dev/null | grep -i '\;.*keyword1\|keyword2' | sed 's/\;.*//'
This will produce a list of all the filenames (path included) that contain either keyword1 or keyword2 ; Pipe it to your viewer of choice, feh being indeed a valid one.
Perhaps even a familiar software to you: XnviewMP allows for user to locate desired folder from a folder-tree view, right click the desired folder there, select load-all-thumbs-from-subfolders (not verbatim).
For best results you might first configure XnViewMP with an image preview, a thumbs area, and then of course the tree.
Hope that helps someone! Here's a link to the XnView community with keyword debian (which typically also applies to Ubuntu, though not vice versa). Specific to updating XnView on Debian/Ubuntu
