Re: importing directories

[David Moore <dcm MIT EDU>]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 20:09 +0100, Anders Bo Rasmussen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:44:25PM -0500, David Moore wrote:
> > The second would be called "Directories to monitor...".  This would be a
> > dialog that contains a user-configurable list of paths (~/Photos by
> > default) where f-spot should automatically look for new files and import
> > them into the user interface without requiring user intervention.  It
> > might also contain a list of "exclude" paths.  This is in the same
> > spirit as the Picasa interface, which I think is very good.  
> 
> When will f-spot search these directories? When the dialog is accepted,
> when f-spot starts or all the time?
> 

I think it should do it all the time (i.e. continuously).

I believe GNOME has some mechanism for this such as fam/gamin/inotify
but I don't know what the latest and greatest is.

-David