[Shotwell] importing directly from SMB share?

[Christian Anton]

Upgraded to 0.8.1 (re-built RPM for fedora). Importing from NAS device
now works perfectly.

Thanks!

Christian

Am 17.01.2011 21:38, schrieb 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
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