[Shotwell] Sorting by Name

[Adam Dingle]

On 08/28/2011 04:43 AM, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
> My 'field trips' extend over several weeks during which I am only able
> to make partial processing. When I return, again full processing may
> take weeks so that dates on the raw files and processed files may be
> weeks apart. Complicated again in that weeks, months or even years later
> I may process some of the images again for a special case.
>
> I store all of my material (under Linux) in Y/M/D folders under the
> Pictures folder.
>
> As it stands I have now populated the Shotwell db and find my images
> wildly apart depending on my processing date.
>
> How do I solve this and pull all raw, processed and xmp files of common
> name together?

In Shotwell today, you can't.  :(

I assume that when you write "processed file" you mean a JPEG image 
generated using an external RAW editor such as UFRaw.  It would be nice 
if the user could somehow tell Shotwell that an existing processed file 
and RAW file belong together and should be treated as the same image.  
That's http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3061 (see especially comment #8 
there).  (Another approach to implement this might be photo stacks - see 
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2090).

Shotwell today also has no knowledge of XMP files.  We'd like to add 
support for those too: see http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3035 and 
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1879 .

adam