[Shotwell] We want your feedback: user-configurable directory structure

[Kent Tenney]

OK, you guys are way ahead of me.

Regarding the original question, polling us for directory name preferences:
All my photos are in directories named yyyy-mm-dd
Each directory names the day I unload my camera, an "import" in Shotwellese.
I find splitting year/month/day a bit too granular, the import =
directory system
is comfortable for me, from that directory I can apply tags, which offer the
required structure: clients, categories, subjects ...

Import=directory also makes it easy to maintain a CD archive.

Thanks,
Kent

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
> Kent,
>
> On 01/24/2011 01:21 PM, Kent Tenney wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Eric Gregory<eric at yorba.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We're working on an often-requested new feature, a user configurable
>>> directory structure, and would like community feedback on how this would
>>> best suit your needs.
>>>
>>> This feature allows you to set a directory structure for your photos
>>> instead
>>> of being forced to use Shotwell's default.
>>>
>>> For now, we're wondering if we want to support hard-coded options only,
>>> for
>>> example, we might have the following options:
>>> YYYY/MM/DD
>>> YYYY/MM-DD
>>> YYYY/MM
>>> YYYY_MM_DD
>>>
>>> Perhaps there's others you'd like to see?
>>
>> Not sure if I follow, but ... I have many years of photos in a directory
>> structure I've evolved, and has meaning to me, so I import "In Place"
>> ("importing in place" sounds like an oxymoron to me) ... links aren't
>> involved
>> ... I choose not to duplicate all the files.
>>
>> I would like the option of the tree panel showing _my_ directory
>> structure.
>> Currently, structure is only time-based: "Events" (which I'd call
>> something
>> more like "Timeline") I'm thinking of structure reflecting "Location"
>> where
>> Location consists of directories, some time-based, some project-based some
>> source-based ...
>
> Yes - we'd also like Shotwell to have a folder tree in the sidebar showing
> where photos are physically located on disk.  But that's a separate feature,
> namely http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594 , and will not make 0.9.  For 0.9,
> we're only planning to implement http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597 , which
> will let the user control where Shotwell places photos which are imported
> from a camera or copied into your library directory.
>
>> I think Shotwell intends tags to provide the structure I'm describing, and
>> they probably can, though I don't know if tags accommodate nesting.
>> I would like if they were hierarchal.
>
> Tags in Shotwell cannot be nested today, though we're hoping to implement
> hierarchical tags for 0.9: see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401 .  We don't
> intend tags to be used to reflect photos' physical locations on disk;
> instead we want a separate sidebar tree for that as I mentioned above.
>
>>> Another option is to support a free-form entry with date formatting
>>> characters to make your own directory structure.  For example, you might
>>> type in something like
>>> %Y%/%M%/%D%
>>> to achieve the current directory structure.
>>>
>>> Additionally, we're looking to add a feature where you can assign a name
>>> to
>>> your import.  This could also be added to the directory structure.
>>
>> I'd like each import to persist by default, now we only have the last
>> import available.
>
> Agreed: that's http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1793 .  This is also unlikely to
> make 0.9, however.
>
> adam
>
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