Re: importing directories

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:31 -0500, David Moore wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, you can get notification of changes while you are running but you
still have to scan for new files at start-up and because of that you
also need to track all the files that are removed from the catalog so
that you don't automatically re-add them.  You also need to make sure
that the edits f-spot does itself are handled properly because it tends
to create temp files when saving to avoid corrupting things.  None of
these probably are particularly hard, someone just needs to take the
time to do it properly.

--Larry