[Shotwell] Call for testing

[naren]

Thanks for the wiki, I have got it compiled and I am testing it. I noticed
that the about box still says, 0.7.2 for the version... or did I get the
wrong source? I see the menu item for "Play Video" so I am guessing this is
the correct branch.

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Naren


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:

> On 12/11/2010 06:14 AM, Andrea Carpani wrote:
>
>> On 12/11/2010 04:35 AM, Jim Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> We've been working diligently on Shotwell 0.8 and are looking to begin
>>> wrapping up this release.  Several exciting features have been added as
>>> well
>>> smaller additions and bug fixes.  This release includes such features as:
>>>
>>> * Video support, including uploading videos to various Web services
>>> (including YouTube)
>>> * Runtime monitoring and auto-import of the library directory
>>> * Metadata (tags, titles, rating) written to master files automatically
>>> * Flagging files for batch operations
>>> * Set multiple photos to desktop background slideshow
>>> * ... and more!
>>>
>> I've built trunk successfully (Ubuntu Maverick, no additional libraries)
>> and I'll be happy to test it, but on my laptop I'm already using the
>> "Maverick" version of shotwell: is there a way I can test the trunk side
>> by side the stable shotwell?
>>
>> I've installed the trunk on a separate directory and I know I can change
>> the datadir with -d option, but what about cgonf preferences? Is there a
>> way I can start the trunk without polluting the "stable" conf?
>>
>
> Not at this time.  You can run two versions of Shotwell side by side and
> they will share the same GConf keys, and this should be mostly OK.  Both
> versions, however, will have the same library directory (specified via
> "Import photos to:" in the preferences dialog).  This means that any photos
> you import from a camera into one version will be visible in the other.  You
> should also be aware that the trunk version of Shotwell will write metadata
> to photo files if you tell it to, so if you're sharing photos between
> Shotwell 0.7.2 and Shotwell trunk then the trunk build may be writing to
> files in your 0.7.2 library.  We think this is reasonably safe today, but
> it's still a trunk build - caveat emptor.  :)
>
> In the future, we may store a separate import directory for each profile
> (i.e. data directory), or even an entirely separate set of GConf keys for
> each profile; see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2146 .  This would reduce
> the potential interaction between two versions running side by side if you
> use a separate profile for each version.
>
> adam
>
>
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