[Shotwell] Ignore some files, existing tags

[Eric Gregory]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, dergringo <dergringo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
>
> Now that Shotwell supports hierarchical tags I love it. Thanks for all
> your effort and energy. This is an outstanding application!
>
> Well, there are two things I am not able to solve:
>
> 1) I would like to import .jpg and .jpeg files only and I don't want
> shotwell to import my PNG's and my RAW's and stuff. How do I set such
> a filter?
> 2) A friend of mine likes to over-tag his pictures and he adds a bunch
> of tags to them. Now when he shares the pictures with me and I import
> them to shotwell all his tags get added to my list of tags. How do you
> avoid this?
>

Hi Philipp,

I'm not sure either of these are use-cases of a photo manager. Importing
based on file extension or only certain metadata of certain photos sounds
outside of the scope of what we're doing with Shotwell.

  - Eric