Re: Roadmap to 1.0

[Jean Levasseur <levasseur jean gmail com>]

My 0.02$ about this topic:

 

Making F-Spot able to adapt to:

  * custom directory structure

  * custom filenames

  * versionning scheme (custom merging of 2+ pictures as versions for example)

would be a great plus for users.  F-Spot now has some nice defaults, but those defaults might not fit some users needs.  Any easy way we can get to make F-Spot more flexible is to be considered, IMO.

 

For example, I had to rebuild my whole photo database, from a previously F-Spot managed directory structure that contained some

  * RAW pictures

  * JPEG ones (developed from RAW)

  * JPEG versionned ones derived from the above (with GIMP for example)

  * some PNG ones.

 

I had great trouble (and still have) managing my new database, because

  * there is no easy way to re-merge versions of my pictures

  * PNG files do not carry EXIF, which places them in the wrong yyyy/mm/dd folder, based on modification date.

 

This is just one example of a situation in which a more flexible F-Spot would be appreciated.

 

I must say, tho, that I still can't imagine managing my pictures without F-Spot, keep on guys!
 

2009/5/12, Brian J. Murrell <brian interlinx bc ca>:

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 01:08 +0000, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
> Michael Wayne Goodman <goodman.m.w <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > A while ago I wrote a patch to allow customization of the directory
> > structure of imported items, which Alessio Gaeta graciously updated.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329040
> >
> > Is such behavior (if not this patch) going to be included in the
> > import process?
>
> IMHO, this is the most missing feature f-spot has so far. Keep up the good work!

I'd argue that true shared/multi-user/machine access to the database and
photos repository is more in demand than the above.

Who really cares how the photos are stored if one is always using f-spot
to access them?  IMHO, you were not meant to go trawling through the
structure that f-spot creates and if you need to, for whatever reason,
then a feature is missing from f-spot.

b.


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