[Shotwell] Pictures folder to be sorted by *Year / Event*

[Adam Dingle]

Raphaël,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Raphaël Dubost-Lamy <raphael.dubost.lamy at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Yorba team, 

First of all, congratulation and thank you very much for your hard work. 
Shotwell is an awesome application which still needs a little bit more 
options to become close to perfect.

Glad you like Shotwell!



Regularly on websites, or other application on your computer, if you want 
to upload / open a picture if they don't support drag&drop or don't have a 
shotwell add-on it becomes quite a mission. 

Depending on how you've set up how shotwell manage your pictures, you need 
to remember the year then the month and sometimes even the day. To be left 
with not named properly pictures.

I hope you realize that you can easily find the path of any photo in Shotwell. Â To do this, right click the photo and choose Show in File Manager from the context menu. Â The Advanced Properties window will also reveal any photo's path.



How much easier would that be to have shotwell importing your pictures and 
saving them in the *Pictures* folder, creating a new folder named after the 
event (shotwell requesting an event name when importing, and displaying the 
pictures as per sorted in the folder). Something like it is a mirror of the 
folder. 

Do you believe it is an option easily created / possible?

I agree that it would be nice to give the user more control over where imported photos are placed. Â As you suggest, one way to do this would be to let the user specify an event name at import time:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3550

And yes, in that case we could place photos in a directory based on the event name:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3549

So yes, I hope we'll be able to make Shotwell more flexible in this respect. Â Cheers -

adam