Re: [gthumb-list] ext branch first impressions

[Roalt Aalmoes <gnome roalt com>]

Jef Driesen wrote:
> I import my pictures into subfolders according to this format:
>
> YYYYMMDD <event>
>
> The date/time part allows me to quickly locate photos by date, because 
> they are sorted chronologically. The <event> part gives a quick 
> description of the photos. It could be the name of the place where the 
> photos were taken, the name of the person on the photos, etc.
I do it it about the same way, although I do not care if I have to 
rename the folder later by hand.
> An other thing I *really* don't like is the checkbox based selection 
> in the importer. First of all, I prefer being able to click the image, 
> because it's much larger than the tiny checkbox. However the main 
> problem is that selecting many (but not all) images is very hard. I do 
> not delete images from the camera after importing, as a temporary 
> backup mechanism. Thus when I import new images, I want to skip the 
> old ones. In the trunk version, I do this by selecting the first new 
> images, scrolling to the last one, and shift-select that to select all 
> new images. This works very fast, but in the new dialog, I have to 
> click every single image. Not very convenient if you want to import a 
> few hundred pictures!
Fully agree! I do this -exactly- the same way and would by quite 
disappointed if this "shift-click method" isn't possible anymore. Maybe 
an even better option might be right-click -> menu -> "select from here" 
option?

Another alternative might be that it might check which photos are 
already imported. I do not like it in the current gthumb that you get 
duplicates of the same photos if you import a 2nd time. A checkbox (yes 
another one) saying "Only import photos not already imported" might do 
the trick here and would make the importing really a charm.

I hope to check out this new ext branch soon, but I'm glad with the 
ongoing work on it!

Roalt