Re: Goal #3: item 'Photos dir'

[derek vandivere net]

With regards to options on how the $PHOTOS dir will be organized, how are
you thinking of implementing that? The bug requests to be able to organize
by tag, but I guess you'd have to select one top-level tag to sort by
(e.g., People, with subdirs for each Person tag). Personally, I'd like to
see an option to organize the dir by month taken rather than day (since I
don't take so many pics).

As far as changing the db location on the fly, could you not just close
one db connection, open the new and reload everything? Hmm, making it more
difficult: I would imagine that if I'm using a different database, I would
always want to use a specific import directory. Maybe it makes sense to
store the import dir (and other profile-style preferences) in the database
itself? This is quite possibly a dumb idea...

dersk

> Hi all,
>
> I started to investigate on a part of the third goal grouping 2 items,
> best known under the Photos directory. The goal include the 2 following
> bugs:
> 344361 â?? Need to be able to select new photo repository from the command
> line (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344361)
> 337250 â?? Option to rename "Photos" directory and how it is organized
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337250)
>
> and I also add this, since it's a dup (but not closed yet since it
> contains a patch):
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325166
>
> To make it short:
> - 325166 is about having the Photos dir stored in GConf and modified
> with the Preferences panel
> - 337250 is about having Photos dir and dp path in gconf, no UI
> - 344361 is about overriding both Photos dir and db path via the
> commandline
>
> My thoughts:
> - it's *not* a good idea to let the user change the db path while f-spot
> is running, so we should'nt set this parameter via the Preferences panel
> or via Gconf
> - it's safe to change the Photos dir (read Import dir) when F-Spot is
> running, and users wants to be able to change it
> - overriding Photos dir and dp path should'nt change the defaults in
> gconf. With that, the user will be able to manage multiple
> photo-collections.
>
> I will now review the different patches and merge them in one
>
> Share your opinions about my thoughts...
>
> regards,
>
> Stephane
>
>
> --
> Stephane Delcroix
> stephane delcroix org
>
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