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

[Jonathon Watney]

Hello,

> 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.

I personally don't rely on directory structure to organize things so I
just use the default directory structure. I'm more interested in
organizing all my images based on metadata. As long as I can export
and publish from shotwell all I need are killer metadata editing and
searching tools builtin. Once I import I don't even want to think
about the file system.

Keep up the good work folks.

Jonathon.


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:00 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?
>
> 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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