Re: Understanding f-spot import dialog issues

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 22:47 -0600, Ryan Harper wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using f-spot for some time since it's been included in
> Ubuntu.  In switching between Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I've noticed a
> couple if things that have caught my attention and I'd like to dig in
> and see if I can help out.  When I ran f-spot (0.5.0.3) on 9.04, I'd
> stick in my SD card into my laptop and the f-spot importer would come
> up and I'd be able to import the photos, and as a nice side-effect,
> the camera movies (.MOV) files also got copied into the Photos
> directory along side.  This was idea since it ensured I got a copy of
> all of the files the camera generated.  F-spot in 9.10 no longer does
> this.  I spent some time rebuilding the version of f-spot that came
> with 9.04 on 9.10 only to find out that it the older version of f-spot
> on 9.10 skipped over the .MOV files.  Looking at the source code,
> namely FileImportBackend.sc, it seems that not copying files for which
> F-spot doesn't have a loader for (see AddPath call to HasLoader) and
> of course there isn't a loader for MOV file.  I'm wondering then, if
> the code in f-spot for ubuntu 9.04 shouldn't be copying the MOV files,
> then how does that happen on 9.04 (8.10, 8.04, 7.10 IIRC all had this
> side-effect behavior) but not on 9.10.  I'm wondering if it's a
> wider-gnome or mono issue.  Any thoughts on this?  I'm highly
> motivated to try to get that behavior back if you've got any ideas on
> how to handle this.

the behavior didn't changed. the way ubuntu invoke f-spot --import did
(that's my guess).

> 
> Second issue I've seen while debugging the above issue has a bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526355
> 
> Looking at the same code in FileImportBackend.cs, it's quite clear how
> this is the case:
> 
> If copy is selected in the import dialog,  the code in the
> FileImportBackend.cs:Step() function calls the System.IO.Copy function
> and will copy the file to the destination location before creating a
> ImageFIle instance of the image.  This happens before one hits the
> import button.  Upon hitting the import button, since the files are
> already copied, the result is that the images and tags are committed
> to the db.
> 
> Thinking back to previous versions of f-spot (0.5.0.3 in 9.04 for
> example) this didn't happen, rather, the thumbnail list was loaded
> from the media and once you hit import, you got a separate window
> indicating the copying process ...  I'm wondering if this also might
> be related to gnome or mono changes.

same here. code didn't changed. you should still be able to invoke the
old dialog (at least on stock f-spot)

s

> 
> Ryan Harper
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