Re: Importing photos with f-spot

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

fre 2004-03-19 klockan 16.08 skrev Larry Ewing:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:51 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Something I've been wanting to hack on for a long time is
> > GPhoto-integration with F-Spot. Sadly I haven't had time to do so but I
> > figured I can start this discussion anyway.
> > 
> > When importing the photos in f-spot, do we want all the photos to go to
> > some ~/Photos/ directory or should you say where to put them on disk
> > when you import? 
> 
> The way I remember seeing this handled in the other programs is a
> checkbox in the import dialog that asks if the photos should be moved.
> I'm leaning towards something like that right now, but it does add a
> little extra complexity that might not be needed.

This was mostly when importing from your camera, and then you pretty
much need to move them off the camera to somewhere. But I guess it
shouldn't really matter if you import from your camera or from some
other place on your harddrive/network filesystem or whatever.

I think it'd be pretty nice to get them to one place (which you can
easily backup/burn out to a cd and such). So that you know if you
imported it in F-Spot it'll be located in your Photos/ directory.

> > The current "Import" only puts the data in the database and doesn't care
> > where on disk the actual photos are. I think it'd be nice to say "I have
> > my photos in ~/Photos, keep track of them and add them to the database
> > if I add new photos to that directory".
> 
> hmmmm good point.

This might be nice either way since then you could manually place the
photos in the Photos/ directory if you use Nautilus to do that rather
than importing with F-Spot itself.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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