[Shotwell] importing directly from SMB share?

[Marcel Stimberg]

Hi,

> Unfortunately, not in the current release.  The SMB share needs to be
> mounted in such a way that its files are available as "normal" files -- i.e.
> mounted on the filesystem and accessible without a URI.
actually, I think it should already be possible: As soon as you access
the share via nautilus (which means using GVFS[1]), it also gets
automatically represented in the file system (same for sftp shares,
etc.). The (hidden) .gvfs directory in your home directory contains a
directory named "share on server" -- I think you should be able to use
this in shotwell for import. Um, I just tested it with a SMB share and
the share is even accessible under places on the left side of the
import directory dialog -- or is this a feature of 0.8.1 (which I'm
using)?
Best,
  Marcel

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS