Re: Idea: several databases as albums

[Mike Gemünde <mike weingutjanson de>]

I think this a good idea. But why only show one database. I would prefer
to select the databases to show at one time. 

With that it would be easy to store some photos with an own database on
a cd, dvd or a external drive and include this just when the volume is
mounted.


Am Mittwoch, den 11.07.2007, 12:31 -0400 schrieb f-spot mbx zapto org:
> Antti Ahonen wrote:
> > There have been some talk about possible album features in F-spot. I 
> > do not know anything about programming, so correct me if I am wrong, 
> > but could it be done this way:
> >
> > Photos.db file is kind of an album itself, so if we would have for 
> > example photos1.db, photos2.db and so on we would have several albums. 
> > So minimum chances required in the program would be a startup menu, 
> > where you could choose your database, or start a new one, and in the 
> > program a possibility to export photos to another database.
> >
> > So this way I could have a main database with all pictures,  and also  
> > separate  databases for different subjects, like "Work", "Family" and 
> > so on.
> >
> > The reason I suggest using the photos.db file as an album, instead of 
> > making virtual albums inside one database is because I have had some 
> > serious performance problems myself with larger databases. I use older 
> > machines, and have relatively large archive, so from my experience I 
> > would say that it gets rather slow to work over 80000 pictures, and 
> > very slow round 130000. So with separate databases, I could always 
> > work with reasonably sized database and have all operations running 
> > nice and smooth.
> >
> > Before you reply that nobody has that many pictures, and everybody has 
> > newer machines, I must point out that if you take digital pictures, 
> > you propably will end up having a lot of those at some point, it might 
> > take years thought. And about the machines, many people who have older 
> > machines are starting to use linux, because new windows programs do 
> > not run in those anymore.
> >
> > And there are other advantages of this system as well, like if I need 
> > to show some specific pictures to somebody, like family-pictures to 
> > relatives, I could use all the F-spots search etc. features without 
> > having to go through all the other image material I have on my database.
> >
> > Well let me know what you think, I thought it might be a good idea.
> >
> I think this is a good idea for other reasons as well.  For example. I 
> might have pictures that are personal and then pictures that I would 
> like to share with my family for example, where my family would use the 
> same computer.  Or perhaps I have pictures that I take as a professional 
> and pictures taken of family and friends.
> 
> I think there might be a command line parameter for this already.  Can 
> anybody verify?  Is this what -basedir does?
> 
> Well even if there is, it would be nice to put this into the UI so it 
> can be changed without restarting and without looking up parameters and 
> re-starting the app.
> 
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