[Shotwell] Shotwell, shot better

[Fantagenius Geniusfanta]

I read a lot of emails on this list asking
for improvements, features, and relative discussions... feedbacks from
the users I'd say, you can agree or disagree but they're precious
anyway. So I would like to describe what, for me, shotwell should do
and how should behave to "shot" even better.
Sorted by priority (highest on top), i'm sorry if it's long:

- Memory of sorting criteria.
When
I change the sorting preferences for photos and/or events (by
title/date, ascending/descending) the software remembers this settings
for each event, but after restarting shotwell this setting is reset to
default. It would be nice if shotwell kept memory of this information.
Oh and it would be great if I could change the default settings.

- Drag&drop importing.
When
importing files/directories by drag&drop the default setting is
"copy files to Images library". Good when dragging from an external
device (i.e. a camera's SD) but bad when importing pics that already
are in my HD. My suggestion: clicking CTRL (or st. similar) during
drag&drop only imports photos in the shotwell db without copying.
And, of course, a modifiable default setting.

- Distinguishing copied photos from only imported ones
If
I have to delete (from the shotwell library) a photo I would like to
keep it in the disk if it's addressed somewhere in my home folder, but
to delete it from the images folder if it was imported with the
copy-box checked (see Drag&Drop in the previous point) to avoid
duplicates. So how to distinguish this two cases? Maybe an overlaying
icon.. or, better, an entry in the "basic information" box.. And what
about a tooltip?
Plus: it could record the address of the file it
copied from in db, so when deleting the software can check if it's
leaving a duplicate or not... this is Sci-Fi I know :)

- Merging/splitting events
I read this will be available soon. Good ;)

- Modifying EXIF data (ticket #76)

Say I'm importing a directory with photos of the same event taken with
different cameras by different people. And say that those people don't
have the habit of setting date and time correctly in their cameras. It
will result in a event multi-split across the years. I'd LOVE a way to
_easily_ correct dates and times of pics taken with the same camera in
the same "take" (roll). Maybe... I put the correct time in a photo
where it's known (a shot of the Big Ben ^.^) and the software applies
automatically the difference to the others (from the same camera)...

- Changing database/img directory (ticket #1076)

This could help if you usually store your photos in external devices
(cards, pendrives, HDs). You could load a specific db stored in the
same device of the photos it addresses, or, select a different drive as
default copy-to library.

- A detailed Help

Finally. I'm
an Italian user, so I can give a help in translating or checking
translation if needed. In the current version (0.3.2) I can read only
one word translated (in the middle of an English phrase).

Thanks a lot for your great job. 		 	   		  
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