Re: sharing photos collection

[Thomas Van Machelen <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

Hi Nat,

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:46 +0100, Nathanaël Martel wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am using f-spot daily and like it very much. So much that I want to 
> share it. My girl friend and me are sharing the computer with tow 
> account on linux. Actualy I manage alone on my account our large 
> collection of photos, but I would like her to access my photos and the 
> data (labels) I am puting on it.
> 
> So far I put photos in a directory with access for both.
> I tried to make, in her session, a link to my f-spot database, but it 
> didn't work...

If you launch f-spot from a terminal with the -help option you will get
a list of command line parameters.

One of them is -b which lets you pass a path the the photos.db file (the
default is ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db.  This should allow you to share
the database.

Regards,
Thomas