Re: Goal #3: item 'Photos dir'

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

In reply to both Derek and Stian,

The way the Directory is organized is, AFAIK, not part of this goal.
it's always a problem when there's more than one item/request by bug
entry.
For the organization part, I opened a new bug entry:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351624

Derek,

about your second paragraph. Not a dumb idea at all, but it's more like
having support for multiple albums in f-spot. Maybe a little too much to
be part of this goal. But you can probably check for this request in
bugzilla.

regards,

Stephane

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 15:09 +0200, derek vandivere net wrote:
> 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 – Need to be able to select new photo repository from the command
> > line (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344361)
> > 337250 – 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
> >
> >
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