[Shotwell] importing directly from SMB share?

[Christian Anton]

Am 17.01.2011 21:12, schrieb Marcel Stimberg:
> 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)?

Hi Marcel!

I just tried using the .gvfs hidden directory and i can confirm that
after accessing the share via nautilus it appears in .gvfs and i can
access it via console for example. So i am sure that this would also
work for shotwell to access. But i didn't try because i am on a really
slow WLAN for now.

The behavior you described using the share directly via the left side of
the import file chooser, is the way i would have expected the tool to
work. It's nice to know that updating the version of shotwell will bring
me that feature. I will consider updating in the next days.


Best regards and thanks a lot to all of you!


Christian