[Shotwell] Call for testing

[Jim Nelson]

It should say 0.7.2+trunk.  But if you're seeing the Play Video command, I
suspect you're running the right version.

-- Jim

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM, naren <naren.salem at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> =
> 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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