Re: Copy on DnD / Import Fixes - Patch

[John Russell <jjrussell gmail com>]

Any thoughts on the move/link modifier?

On 12/3/05, Larry Ewing <lewing novell com> wrote:
> Thanks Aaron, looks good.  Go ahead and commit.
>
> --Larry
>
> On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 00:39 -0500, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> > Tonight I was in the mood to organize stuff, and felt compelled to clean
> > up ~/Photos, reimport everything, and tag everything for real. Up until
> > tonight I've just used F-Spot more or less to offload photos from my
> > camera.
> >
> > I have close to a thousand photos taken a few years back on a really
> > cheap digital camera that have never seen F-Spot. This camera was so
> > pathetic it apparently didn't even stick a time stamp in EXIF. Luckily
> > the mtimes on these photos are at least relatively accurate.
> >
> > Attached is a patch that accomplishes/fixes a few things with importing
> > and DnD:
> >
> > 1. Importing the photos with no EXIF timestamps with the "copy" option
> > reads the photo for metadata _after_ the copy - this hoses the mtimes,
> > and leaves me with a thousand photos "taken" today. This is fixed by
> > passing both the new/destination and old/source path (which can be
> > identical if a copy was not performed) to PhotoStore.Create. It will
> > parse the data from the old/source path and do everything else on the
> > new/dest path. Makes me happy ;)
> >
> > 2. Respect the DragAction for DnD files from Nautilus to F-Spot for
> > importing. If you effectively DnD with the Gdk.DragAction.Copy flag, the
> > photos will be copied and imported. If you drag with
> > Gdk.DragAction.Move, they will not be copied.
> >
> > This modifies the default behavior: DnD with no key modifiers will copy
> > and import. You have to hold "Shift" and DnD to not copy. Since this
> > changes the current default behavior, maybe this needs to be discussed.
> > I think it's sane however since the Move/Copy is set from Nautilus, and
> > is how Nautilus itself works. (The previous functionality of this I
> > think is *incorrect*. I always assumed F-Spot copied my photos when I
> > had the copy modifier set for the drag.
> >
> > 3. Finally, a little teeny bug fix. When performing any kind of DnD
> > import, F-Spot would crash after the import because it was trying to
> > update the label on the import progress dialog. I assume this was
> > introduced recently as it didn't used to happen. Was just a little null
> > ref.
> >
> > So now I'm happy and organized and can actually find photos now :)
> >
> > Best,
> > Aaron
> >
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