Re: Goal #3: item 'Photos dir'

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

> Rethinking it, I think you are right here.  Definitely as a first step
> this is the way to go.  I'm still concerned about the following usage
> pattern: 
> 
> Joe Blow hears about F-Spot and decides to give it a try.
> He imports a bunch of photos and tags them.
> He realizes he's almost out of space on /home, but has plenty in a
> separate partition /files
> He wants to change to have /files/Photos be his new import directory 
> He wants to have all of his photos together for simplicity/backup/etc

It concerns me a bit also... but I think it's too big for this goal (or
we can't close and test this discussion in the 3 weeks window).
But there's a hope for Joe Blow. Uh, no, 3 hopes, at least:
- expunge f-spot, move his collection, re-import it (with the XMP
import). a minor issue is the versioned images. Check the bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342138 for the minor issue
- use the batch rename
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302566
- and the best one... f-spot should detect changes (moves, rename,
deletes) on files using gnome-vfs


> From what I understand of the current plan, the first photos he
> imported would stay in ~/Photos, and new imports would go
> to /files/Photos?  Is this ideal?  What if he is a non-English speaker
> and Photos doesn't make any sense to him?  Again, this may be
> something we need to accept giving the 2 week constraint, and just
> having in the ability to change it would be a big step forward. 
> 
For non english speakers, what about setting the default to
GetString("Photos") ? So, at first run, f-spot will create the localized
Photos directory, *store it* in gconf, and f-spot will find it whatever
the locale defined at runtime ?

Is this a good solution ?

>         > My only other thought is, remember the request that the DB
>         be moved
>         > into Photos?  Is that something we want to consider at this
>         point?  It
>         > seems the ideal for the multiple albums case as well as the 
>         > portability case.  That way its all stored in one bunch.  If
>         nothing
>         > else it touches on a lot of the same issues as these bugs,
>         so we
>         > should probably take it into account with this
>         patch.  Unless we 
>         > decide to discard it.
>         >
> 
Oops, forget about this...

my opinion, again: keep the default db for default users in a safe
place. And let's other users do place their db where they want

> This still appeals to me, but is again outside the current goal.

same feeling. this part of the goal will open the door to a lot of new
functionalities in the future (I think about handling multi-albums from
the main UI), but we need to do it step by step, to rely on solid
foundations.

Thanks for your comments

Stephane
> 
> 
> Ben
> 
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