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

[paterijk]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your answer. I'll definitely switch to Shotwell soon, but as 
you suggested, I'll first wait for the features set of 0.9 !

Good luck with the implementation of this great software !

Patrick


On 12/28/2010 03:33 PM, Adam Dingle [via Shotwell] wrote:
>
>
> 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
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