Re: how to reunite lost versions?

[Ulf Rompe <Ulf Rompe icem com>]

On Do, 2007-12-13 at 17:22 +0100, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: 
> Stephane Delcroix ha scritto:
> > compiling f-spot with -d:ENABLE_REPARENTING will allow you to reparent
> > using drag'n drop
> >   
> nice. why isn't this enabled by default?

Stephane answered this in September:

>On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 22:06 +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2007, 11:12 +0200 schrieb Stephane Delcroix:
>> > - the code for reparenting an image as version of another dy drag'n
>> > drop is already in trunk, just not compiled yet (compile with
>> > -d:ENABLE_REPARENTING if you want to give it a try)
>> 
>> I have just tried it out. It works like a charm, but at the same time it
>> is a bit dangerous. Imagine the user who has marked 500 images, begins
>> to drag them and drop them onto a another photo by accident. He will end
>> up with a very innovative way of browsing his photos. :-)
>> 
>> So, in my eyes there are two things missing:
>> 
>>      1. A warning dialog, asking the user if he really wants to reparent
>>         the dragged images.
>>      2. A possibility to split out wrongly parented images. This feature
>>         would also be nice to have for edited pictures which differ so
>>         much from the original that one would like to see them as a new
>>         image instead of a version.
>those are the 2 reasons why it's not compiled by default


[x] ulf 

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