Re: importing directories

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:48 -0500, John Russell wrote:
> Is there any way to change the ~/Photos folder?

There isn't (yet). 

> In a related question is there a way to make the "Copy file to the
> Photos folder" checkbox on the import dialog default to off? 

Defaulting it to on is probably a good idea, but saving your preference
after the first time is also a good idea.

> I imported a directory with some movies in it as my camera takes avi
> movies. The non-image files ( avi and one .wav ) show up as empty
> entries in the catalog.

I'm not sure how these are supposed to be handled.  I know that support
for opening avi's in totem and keeping track of wav's associated with
photos are feature requests, but I thought they were supposed to be
silently skipped for now too.

> I imported this folder as described above, and then went to select
> another folder to import.  When I open the Import folder dialog, the
> Thxgiving folder is already selected and f-spot immediately starts
> trying to import the final 9 movies that it errored importing the last
> time.  I have to cancel that import in order to start another one. 

I've heard about this issue, though I'm not familiar.

> And the name of the directory at the top is not
> 2005-11-27_Thxgiving
> but
> 2005-11-27Thxgiving
>  with the 'T' underlined as a keyboard shortcut.  I'm pretty sure that
> this is a gtk+ thing having underscores denote shortcut keys, but
> underscores are valid directory characters too and should be handled
> in this case.

I'm sure you're right.  I would do a bug search and then file bugs for
all of these if you don't find anything.

Peace,

Gabriel Burt