[Shotwell] Path of a picture

[oliver]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:47:20AM -0700, Laura Khalil wrote:
> > The biggest import needed one night long, estimated 10 hours.
> 
> Sounds like you've got a huge library! How many photo do you have?

Shotwell says, there are now 29.775 photographs.
But I'm not sure if raw and jpeg are counted together.
But I have a lot more photographs which are not already
slurped into shotwell.
So I have some more stuff to look what happens if I use real
data in shotwell with much more than 30k files.
But at the moment I need shotwell to create some prints from
some phortographs, and so I have no time to insert more photos just
to test the behaviour of shotwell.



> 
> > What I now today saw: if no picture is selected or if more than one picture is selected,
> > then the window with the enhanced information opens and shows nothing.
> > A message box, saying that there must be one qand only one picture be selected would
> > help here.
> >
> > Maybe this was just the case (no picture selected),
> > which was irritating me.
> 
> This feature has been requested: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4854

OK.

> 
> Currently, we don't have plans to fix this issue, but if you'd like to
> add your opinion to the ticket listed above, please do.

Maybe later.

But let me mention: some pictures, when selected, do not show
all necessary information.
I already sent a screenshot of the enhanced-information-window
to yorba.
I selected one picture and only the path and the filesize was displayed,
not the dimesnions of the picture.

I maybe explore that later in more depth.
With some of my raw-pics I also have problems when viewing them with
qiv image viewer.
Maybe the problem is not a problem from qiv and not from shotwell, but
from a raw-pic library?
But shotwell displays those pics with missing dimesnions correctly.

So at the moment I don't know more details.
Can just guesing whats going on, until I have time to explore it in
depth. This will be not before the weekend.

At the moment it's just guessing around.


> 
> >> I will try to reproduce this, but if you didn't see it again, it
> >> sounds like something that was just a fluke. I will keep you advised.
> >
> > A "fluke", if coming from software in my  eyes is a bug.
> 
> Totally agree. To clarify, we need to be able to reproduce bugs to fix them.

Fine that you agree. :-)

More exploration will follow.

> 
> > From what I experienced today when using shotwell intensive,
> > is: all in all shotwell is a pleasure to use. :-)
> 
> Glad you're enjoying Shotwell overall!

Yes. :-)

I thought, it's a good ideas to mention it... because my mourning
otherwise might look too negative.

When the number of pics will increase, maybe I again will start
to complain. ;-)
But then I think some optimisations could be implemented to solve that problem.

    (I already mentioned the bulk insertion; will answer to the last mail on
     this list regarding this problem, as soon as I have time.)


What I do like is the usability.
It was so easy to give stars and tags to pictures, hey this was
really amazing.

Especially if you have a lot of pictures and the problem of making decisions,
which pics to select, then good usability is important.
Keyboard-based handling makes things so fast. :-)

And I have a new feature wish for that, which I will send in a seperate mail.

Ciao,
   Oliver