[Shotwell] Requested Enhancement

[Adam Dingle]

On 12/05/2010 04:59 AM, Anthony Howarth wrote:
> Shotwell is a great photo manger but, until color management is 
> available, I will also need to use a RAW conversion program like 
> RawStudio.
>
> I don't know about other photographers out there, but a really useful 
> feature for me would be if the duplicate folder had an option to enter 
> an output folder.
>
> Since Shotwell is so fast, I will be importing all my camera RAW files 
> directly from my camera to do my photo organizing, tagging, ranking, 
> etc. Let's say I import 250 photos after a photo shoot. Upon viewing 
> them in Shotwell, there may be only 25 photos with a 5-star ranking 
> that I need color managed post processing for. I would then like to 
> duplicate them to a new sub-folder, so that when I open a RAW 
> conversion program I can just import that one folder without having to 
> search through the 250 photos for the 25 I want.
>
> Does that make sense? I would think this is a common problem.

Anthony,

today, Shotwell doesn't give you much control over where photos live in 
the file system.  That's a significant limiation, and in future releases 
we hope to improve the situation by implementing features such as a 
user-configurable import directory hierarchy 
(http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597) and a folder tree in the sidebar 
(http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594).  In particular, once the folder 
tree exists you'll be able to drag photos between folders in Shotwell 
just like in Nautilus, which would effectively give you the capability 
you're looking for.

In the meantime, you can sort of accomplish what you want by creating 
and opening a new directory in Nautilus, then by dragging the 25 photos 
from Shotwell to the Nautilus window.  The new photos won't be part of 
the Shotwell library, however.

If you specifically want the capability to duplicate to an output folder 
for the reasons you describe, feel free to open a ticket for that and we 
can consider it.  I hope this capability won't be needed in the long 
term, however, once we add better color management, RAW support and file 
system flexibility to Shotwell itself.

adam