Re: change in storage directory: a bug?

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

it's a bug... pls report it on bugzilla

regards

s

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 19:24 -0400, David Stahl wrote:
> I just noticed something and I'm not sure if it's related:
> 
> I'm also using Ubuntu Feisty. In the previous version of F-Spot 
> (whichever one came with Edgy Eft) I was accustomed to dragging an image 
> to F-Spot and F-Spot would copy it into ~/Photos/... and finish the import.
> 
> With the new version, that no longer seems to happen. When I drag a 
> photo it is imported and left to stay where it was (it is not copied to 
> ~/Photos). Was that behavior changed or do I have a bad setting somewhere?
> 
> -D
> 
> Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> > Don't worry it's all ok. I was just reporting for sake of
> > bug hunting and F-Spot improvement. The issue is
> > definitely reasonable after your explanation.
> > 
> > Thank you very much for the wonderful F-Spot!
> > 
> > Emanuele
> > 
> > Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> >> Hi Emanuele,
> >>
> >> First, it's totally ok to have multiple base directories, don't worry
> >> with that.
> >>
> >> And about the change, I'd say it's a necessary pain... At a moment in
> >> time, we had to start doing that thing right (I mean create it once and
> >> keep that location in the preferences). Before that, we had no way of
> >> telling what was the default import folder, so no way to warn that it
> >> changed...
> >>
> >> sorry about that
> >>
> >> s
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:30 +0200, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> >>   
> >>> I upgraded to f-spot 0.3.5 (provided by ubuntu feisty fawn) from 0.2.?
> >>> (the one in edgy eft) but at the first import the new pictures were put in
> >>> ~/Foto/ directory and not in ~/Photos/ where I have all my archive. Note
> >>> that my Linux installation is in Italian but before the upgrade F-spot never
> >>> changed directory Photos->Foto . I solved by removing all the new pictures,
> >>> then going to preferences and setting again ~/Photos/ as default. Note that
> >>> there was no warning about this and it's not trivial for users to catch it
> >>> (I noticed the changed during a backup...).
> >>>
> >>> Is it expeceted that recent versions of F-Spot decides to change the default
> >>> storage directory to something locale-dependent (without notifying)?
> >>>
> >>> Note that F-Spot 0.3.5 behaved correctly showing both pictures coming from
> >>> ~/Photos/ and from ~/Foto/ all together. But I believe that this mixed
> >>> stated
> >>> is something to avoid. Or not?
> >>>
> >>> Hope this helps,
> >>>
> >>> Emanuele
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> F-spot-list mailing list
> >>> F-spot-list gnome org
> >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
> >>>
> >>>     
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > F-spot-list mailing list
> > F-spot-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
> > 
> 
-- 
Stephane Delcroix
stephane delcroix org