Re: multiple users, same pictures

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 13:44 +0300, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> I have two users using my GNOME-machine. And I have quite a few pictures
> stored on that machine. Now, the way they way my pictures are stores is
> that I have bunch of subdirectories in /multimedia/pics that are split
> by category. All pictures in those various categories have been imported
> to F-spot. The benefit of this scheme is that I can view those pictures
> in F-spot, and I can view them sensibly outside F-spot as well.
> 
> Now, would F-spot "just work", if I have two separate users working on
> those pictures (not at the same time of course)? How would versioning
> work? And secondly (and maybe more importantly): How could I make it so
> that when one user imports pictures to those folders, they would become
> visible in the other users F-spot as well? Basically, I would like
> F-spot to monitor the filesystem, and automatically import pictures that
> appear in certain folders. Maybe I could manually tell it to import pics
> from certain folder, but I'm afraid that if I keep on re-importing
> certain folder, I would end up with bunch of duplicate pictures. Or does
> F-spot know not to re-import same pictures over and over again?

Hi,

F-Spot today stores the Photos directory as well as the F-Spot internal
database under the user's home directory (~/Photos, as well as
~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db).

Of course when you import the photos, you could choose to only link to
the photos, then F-Spot would just store a reference to your existing
photo in its database. 

Unfortunately, todays version of f-spot is a single user application,
and you can not share the database between users.
Check the following bugs for more information:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331953
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323966

You could hack it, and link the ~/.gnome2/f-spot directory to a shared
directory somewhere I guess.

There is a duplicate patch that are on its way into F-Spot.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169646

I also created an enhancement bug for F-Spot to be able to monitor a
directory for new photos.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341729

/Bengt