Re: Album Support

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Stephane Delcroix wrote:

> As you, I'm not at all in favor of showing Freddy's album concept in
> front of Sally, but we can't ask Freddy to either a pro-photographer AND
> a script kiddy. Freddy probably wants also all the beauty of nice Gnome
> UI to select his albums. But we can keep that in the fridge for now. The
> best solution for this could be implemented as a plugin (can be enabled
> or disabled), and loads the plugins before the core, so the plugin can
> display a dialog showing all Freddy's albums and a button to create a
> new album. But as I already said, let's keep that in the fridge for now
> (Maybe you'll have a plugin doing that with my next release of
> plugins :) ).

Well - I hate to bring up iPhoto yet again, but pretty much the same 
situation exists there - iPhoto has a concept of a Library (pretty much 
identical to how John described a collection), and althrough iPhoto 
itself supports multiple libraries, there's no way to change libraries 
in the iPhoto gui --- I guess they couldn't find a way to do it without 
being confusing either.

So what happened was that a 3rd party dev released a small free-ware 
package called 'iPhoto Librarian' that lets you create new Libraries, 
and then launch iPhoto with one of them.  if iPhoto is running, it 
basically kills it and restarts a new one with the new Library.

In the long run, I think we can do better than this, and have something 
directly in f-spot to switch collections.  But in the short term this 
would be a lot better than the cli option I added.

The separate app could just access the f-spot gconf file and put the new 
collection settings there.

What do people think?

Warren