Fwd: automatically copying the photos over

["jason switzer" <jswitzer gmail com>]

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From: jason switzer <jswitzer gmail com>
Date: Mar 6, 2007 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: automatically copying the photos over
To: ulugeyik <durduran hotmail com>

Well, if I recall correctly, the Gnome friendly way of doing things like this is to use gconf. If that is correct, then the best option is to follow the Gnome standard behavior on as many things as possible. Gnome doesn't really have an official photo manager, so doing things the Gnome way could help f-spot become an official package.

Anyways, that's off-topic. In regards to storing configuration options, I still recommend we do things in as much of a Gnome friendly way as possible.

-Jason

On 3/6/07, ulugeyik <durduran hotmail com> wrote:

I wonder if the simple solution is to have a .f-spotrc where we can have a
whole lot of options tuned to our preferences. sorry, I do not know C# to
attempt a patch.


jason switzer wrote:
>
> I'd like to agree with Patrick here. I have a place already setup for all
> of
> my pictures and the last thing I want f-spot to do is move over all those
> photos and attempt to detect duplicates. It just makes more sense for it
> to
> copy only when making new versions or modifications to the originals. I
> don't really want to have to maintain 2 locations for photo directory
> structure and I don't want f-spot modifying the originals either.
>
> It sounds like the best option would simply be to default to copying over
> and allow an option to turn that off. An option to copy the modifications
> over would fit nicely as well. Both of those options would work perfect
> with
> the patch submitted by Michael.
>
> -Jason
>
> On 3/5/07, Michael Wayne Goodman <goodman m w gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Patrick,
>> I recently submitted a patch that allows one to customize the
>> directory structure in which the photos will be copied.  With any luck
>> it will be included in the next release, but that is up to the
>> decision of the maintainers.
>> ( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329040)
>>
>> As far as whether F-Spot imports or not, that is a different story.
>> It currently copies the photos as you are previewing photos to import,
>> and before you click the "import" button.  This is definitely a bad
>> way to do it and should be fixed soon (I hope).  Also, at one point
>> F-Spot would copy the photos whether you checked the "Copy file to the
>> Photos folder" checkbox or not.  I'm not sure if this is still the
>> case, but if it is then it is also something that should be fixed
>> right away.  Please check with the latest version ( 0.3.4) to see if it
>> fixes your particular problem.
>>
>> If your problem still exists in the latest code from svn, then by all
>> means submit a patch if you're willing to write one.  Having one too
>> many patches for a bug is always better than one too few.
>>
>> Thanks for your input!
>>
>> On 3/5/07, Patrick Wagstrom < patrick wagstrom net > wrote:
>> > I'm just wondering, what's the logic behind having F-spot always copy
>> > the photos over when importing photos?  It seems like there are a few
>> > problems with this functionality, or at the very least, it's current
>> > implementation that cause issues in my use and a few other folks in my
>> LUG.
>> >
>> > First, with it on by default, it frequently makes imports take a lot
>> > longer, especially if the photos are already on a safe and stable place
>> > on your disk.
>> >
>> > Secondly, if you're like me, and don't pay attention when it's on, you
>> > have to click cancel, in which case it leaves all the previously copied
>> > files already sitting in your other location, which you need to go
>> clean
>> > up manually and try the import again.
>> >
>> > Thirdly, I've had problems with being stupid like this and having
>> f-spot
>> > import duplicates, which are rather hard to find most of the time.
>> >
>> > So the way I see it there are a few possible solutions to this issue:
>> >
>> > 1. Mandate copying of photos over
>> > 2. Retrain all users to like copying their photos over
>> > 3. Make the default not to copy photos over
>> > 4. Have F-spot remember whether or not you told it to copy photos over
>> >
>> > Option 1 isn't that good because lot of people manage their photos with
>> > a different directory structure.  Option 2 isn't possible because there
>> > will always be dumb users like myself.  Option 3 is a possibility, but
>> > I'd imagine that some users like the feature.  Option 4 is a
>> > possibility, but raises some other issues regarding consistency -- for
>> > example, do we set it per filesystem, device, path?
>> >
>> > In my view, it makes the most sense to implement option 4 by having
>> > F-Spot just store a g-conf key and set the value on the import dialog
>> > when the dialog is created.
>> >
>> > Before I go and implement this, is there any reason why implementing
>> > option 4 somehow goes against the GNOME and F-Spot UI guidelines.
>> We're
>> > not talking about a new UI element, just remembering the state of the
>> > form when reloaded.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts?
>> >
>> > --Patrick
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>>
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