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

[Lu Timdale]

I use a combination of year as a higher level folder + full date/event as the 
subfolder
YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD Event Name

so,
2010/
    2010-01-01 Kids in Backyard/
    2010-01-01 Fred's Birthday/
    ...
2011/
    2011-02-22 Another Event/
    ...
...

 
This makes it easy to find photos (from my perspective) from a file structure at 
a glance (without going through hidden nested structure).  I generally know the 
year, but not the exact date (even month) of the event.  I would recall what the 
event name was and scan for that in a "sorted by date" list of events within 
that particular year's events.


Ideally, the photos themselves would be renamed (and be configurable as well) as 
part of the import.  So, it should be...
2010-01-01 Event 001.jpg
2010-01-01 Event 002.jpg
or date/time based
2010-01-01 1030 01.jpg
Ideally, they would be unique for the entire library.

Thanks.


Lu Timdale
lutimdale at yahoo.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Eric Gregory <eric at yorba.org>
To: shotwell <shotwell at lists.yorba.org>
Sent: Mon, January 24, 2011 4:00:53 PM
Subject: [Shotwell] We want your feedback: user-configurable directory structure

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?

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.

If you're interested in this feature, let us know what you'd like to see and
which aspects are most important to you.

  - Eric
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