Is there some photo viewer or other tool to sort photos manually and then save the sorted filename list to a text file (for use in a script)?

I formerly used Picasa, which saved the sort order in a fairly transparent .pal file, but Google now hides this information somewhere I can't find.

in the folder you can run something like
but the order in a folder will be the system default
and not a "list" of a album

sorted as how ?
1.png
2.png
3.png
or what

I want a list of filenames in the order that I have manually selected. I will then use that list in a script to rename those files, prepending an index, so that subsequent alphanumeric sorting will use the order that I have manually selected.

I need a viewer to see what I am doing for the manual sort, then some way to get the result into a text file. Prepending the index number to the old filename preserves whatever information was in the old filename. I do this with audio files, but for those, the filename alone identifies the file. Photos require the help of some kind of viewer.

i think it should be for a single column list.

you may want to check out nautilus scripts (i see one for dumping exif data on the g-scripts site); particularly the NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS variable.

But I want to export the sort order that I have manually selected using the viewer, not anything in the original file. The viewer must be able to sort (like Picasa), and then able to export the manually selected sort order (like Picasa used to do in .pal files).

$ ls | tee list.txt

Will give you a list of files in a file that you can sort manually. Cut and paste style.

You can perma-sort it by renaming the files in a naming convention that sorts by ascii values. By prefixing timestamp information in front of the files for example.

$ date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N"

couldnt nautilus be used as some kind of viewer ? if you were to create a nautilus script (or expand on the meta-exif-dump script) couldnt you export the list of files in NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS in sorted order ?

mite be more complicated than you need (not sure about your environment); but just a suggestion.

That's what I'm doing now: sorting in Picasa where I can see what I'm doing, then tediously making a matching file list by hand.
Before version 3 of Picasa I could simply extract the file list from Picasa's .pal file.

There are lots of other file viewers and editors available, and I'm hoping one will let me do what I was doing with the old Picasa.
If the viewer allows manual sorting, it has to store the sequence somewhere, and I just want to export it to a text file.

picassa ( well G+ photo) is a online album
you will need to use the tools on your g+ page

mirage is decent for viewing images in a directory. Shows gif images as well. Not exactly featureful or fast if the images are huge, but a nice way to see what you're looking at, literally.

I use the offline version. I like to keep my data on my own hardware and in a nonproprietary format.

Irfanview has the desired capability and runs under Wine. (Under heading "File", choose "save selected filenames as TXT"). But is there no native Linux photo viewer or editor that can do this?

i was able to do this in gthumb.

clik on view -> sort -> sort by date/name/size ...

highlight the files you are interested in. rite-clik -> copy and paste in a text file.

But these photos come from a scanner, not a camera, so it is useless to sort by date/name/size. I found the following about gthumb:

http://sourcepole.com/manually-sort-images

So maybe gthumb is hackable to do this, or maybe the feature is now supported. I would welcome more information.