Re: importing directories

[John Russell <jjrussell gmail com>]

On 11/30/05, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
> 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).

No problem.  If the next one were fixed this wouldn't matter after I
uncheck Copy file... the first time.

>
> > 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.
>

Working on this.  Should have a patch ready soon.  Right now I can
save settings and it works but the settings don't change in f-spot if
someone changes them in the gconf-editor.  I see the event come back
to f-spot but I can't quite catch it yet.  Soon.

> > 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.

No skipping unfortunately. I'll see if I can find out why.

>
> > 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.

Will do. Thanks for the response.

John