[Shotwell] I intend to switch to Shotwell from Picasa, but ...

[Adam Dingle]

Patrick,

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:38 AM, paterijk <paterijk at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Today I discovered one of the great new features of Shotwell 0.8 : watching
> the photo library for updates !
>

Glad you like it.  :)


>
> I would really like to change to Shotwell (I'm currently using Picasa ...),
> but I'm still missing two features :
>
> a) automatically save the changes made to a photo and store the original
> version somewhere (ideally in a subdirectory of the original photo's
> directory or side by side by renaming the original photo; the first option
> being in my eyes better, as you can browse through your photos with other
> softwares without having to look at "nearly-duplicates" all the time ...)
> (
> http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/Shotwell-storing-original-and-modified-photos-td4899.html
> );
>

Right.  The Shotwell ticket for this feature is
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1798 .


>
> b) in the left pane, have the possibility to browse the folders on the disk
> (my folders are linked to events, and I completely lose my organization if
> I
> import everything into Shotwell, unless I recreate all the events manually)
> (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594).
>

Yes - we want this too.


>
> I have read about both features in several posts (see above), but I
> wondered
> if I could have an update on  the ongoing implementations of these
> features,
> before turning away from Picasa (and maybe regretting my move) ...
>

We haven't begun implementing either of these features.  In January, we'll
decide the feature set for Shotwell 0.9, which we plan to release in March.
 The features you mentioned are possible candidates, but they are competing
with a good number of other high priorities - see the Shotwell 0.9 section
on the Shotwell wiki page (http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell) for a list
of the top big-ticket items (including both of the items you mentioned).  So
if the features you mentioned are essential to you, you might want to wait
until we announce the 0.9 feature set before making the switch.

adam