Re: Why wont it do what I want it to do?

["Mark A. Bell" <m487396 rocketmail com>]

Hi Janne,

I don't know enough about f-spot to configure it correctly for you, but
it sounds like gthumb would do the kind of things you want.

     gthumb
     http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/features.html

regards,

- mark
  sydney, australia
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/m487396
  Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 14:31 +0300, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> > What am I doing wrong here? I don't think that my wants and needs
> are
> > unreasonable, as far as photomanagement is concerned. And still,
> F-Spot
> > constantly fights against me.
> > 
> > So I have a bunch of photos on my computer. They are NOT in my
> > home-folder, but rather in /multimedia/pics. This way they are
> > accessible to my wife as well. And in that directory, they are also
> > divided among different folders, named after the subject. This way
> I can
> > browse the pictures in filemanager as well, should the need arise.
> > Sounds simple enough? Yes it does. But why is this setup so
> difficult
> > for F-Spot to handle?
> > 
> > I want to import those pics to F-Spot. No problem. I select the
> > import-tool, select /multimedia/pics as the folder to import,
> select
> > "include subdirectories", unselect the "copy files to
> photos-folder",
> > and proceed with the import. And it does seem to work beautifully.
> After
> > the import, I have bunch of pictures in F-Spot. All is well, now is
> it?
> > Well, no. If I check the location of the picture in the filesystem
> > (F-Spot offers no easy tool for this. It seems that I have to
> select
> > "Copy Location", and paste the location to Terminal, in order to
> find
> > out where the actual file is located. F-Spot itself never tells me
> where
> > those pictures are in the filesystem). I notice that they are
> located
> > in /home/janne/photos/xxxx/yyyy/zzzz, where the x, y and z is the
> date
> > of the picture. And what I want is for those pictures to be
> > in /multimedia/pics/<subject>
> > 
> > I explicitly told F-Spot to NOT to copy the files to the
> Photos-folder.
> > Yet it ALWAYS copies the files to my home-directory, so I have same
> set
> > of pics copied in to multiple locations in the hard-drive. If I
> edit any
> > of the photos in F-spot, the edits are applied to the files on my
> > home-directory, and not to the pictures in /multimedia/pics.
> > 
> > I just re-tried the import, after I deleted the photos-folder from
> my
> > home. And again it copied the files to my home. I then deleted the
> > photos-folder again, and the thumbnails were still visible in
> F-Spot,
> > but full-size photos were not.
> > 
> > Why can't I do something as simple as this: Tell F-spot to import
> photos
> > from certain folder and NOT copy the files ANYWHERE. Just import
> the
> > photos, but leave the actual files where they are!
> > 
> > IIRC I ONCE managed to make F-spot really use the /multimedia/pics,
> but
> > even then, if I imported pics from my camera, F-Spot always
> imported
> > them to /home/photos. So my pictures were split among two
> locations,
> > when I really want to have all my pics in one location.
> > 
> > Why is this so hard? It feels like that F-Spot has certain way of
> > working, and it wont budge from that way. And I would have to
> adjust my
> > way of working to suit F-Spot. And we are not talking about
> anything
> > fundamental here, we are talking about the location where the
> pictures
> > are stored!


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