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

[David Velazquez]

I agree. Rapid Photo Downloader is nice! He did something right with it and
Shotwell would do well to emulate or at least take some ideas from there.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:32 AM, caccolangrifata <caccolangrifata at gmail.com
> wrote:

> To import photo I use Rapid-Photo-Downloader [1]. I really like this
> program import method. There you can chose the entirely path and photo
> name from various option like year, month, day, hours of the shot,
> event, and other photo metadata. I really enjoy an import method like
> that and it would be great see this features in Shotwell.
>
> [1] - http://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/
>
> Cheers!
> Emanuele
>
> Il giorno lun, 24/01/2011 alle 13.00 -0800, Eric Gregory ha scritto:
> > 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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