Re: CVS Import copies photos to ~/Photos!!

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:53 +1100, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just managed to compile the CVS version of F-Spot, and to my surprise a
> few things have changed rather much, and not to the better I think.
> 
> ==> 1) Apparently somewhere down the track it was decided that F-Spot
> will store all photos in ~/Photos/Year/Month. 
> In my case, I will store all photos on a separate partition, but yes,
> under the Year/Month structure. I do know some people who would choose
> not to store them according to this though.  
> I would assume that it is best that F-Spot by default keeps the picture
> in the place he imports them from (as long as it is from the file
> system.) If it is from a Camera or removable media, a question to if you
> want to copy them to filesystem (and where in that case) would be
> appropriate.
> Personally I would like to move/copy/rename the pictures if needed later
> through some menu in F-Spot (like bug
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302566)
> 

It only copies if the option is selected in the import dialog,  the
option is on by default.  

> 
> ==> 2) Second time you import pictures, it re-imports the ones just
> imported and if you press finish, then you get a lot of duplicates.
> No way to stop to change some parameters (like tags etc.)
> 
> 

The duplicate detection patch will catch these cases once it goes in.

> Any comments on the background to these changes perhaps?
> 

People had complained that they had lost images because they presumed
f-spot had made a copy (like it does when copying from removable media)
and removed the directories containing their images.  So I made it do
the same thing in both cases by default and added the option to change
that behavior to the dialog.  I'm certainly open to further dicussion.

--Larry