[Shotwell] Ignore some files, existing tags

[Adam Dingle]

On 08/27/2011 06:23 PM, Ian Molton wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:00 -0700, Eric Gregory wrote:
>>> 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.
> I'm *certain* that these are within the use-case of a photo manager.
>
> I'd like to see an "advanced" button in the import window that allows
> stuff like extension filtering.

I agree this would be useful.  Indeed, we have an existing ticket for this:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2623

>
> A simple tickbox for "Remove existing tags" or something would allow one
> to solve the 'overzealous friend' problem. I occasionally have this
> problem with photos friends send me too.

This could also be useful.  I've created a ticket here:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4041

adam