Re: [Shotwell] New features suggestions

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 09:56 +0200, Gabriele Ciuti via shotwell-list
wrote:
> Hi
> I use shotwell for several years and I think it is one of the best
> program for Linux. 
>
> But, in my opinion, some new feature could be implemented and should
> be important. These are my suggestions :
>
> - automatic backup creating a tar.gz file including photos, cache and
> preference. Selecting from start / end date or whole archive to
> backup should be implemented (indeed continuous adding photos to
> shotwell fill the hdd and, actually, it is difficult to choose which
> photos leave... Moreover it is difficult to create a manual backup)

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716151 - As usuall with all
feature requests, I am happy to review implementations.

> - jpeg-raw photo: is it possible to add a function to remove the raw
> file leaving jpg? Indeed when we use to import photos raw&jpg format
> from reflex, we can decide to leave a photo only in the jpg format
> (the raw takes a lot of disk space)

There's already a feature request open for that, see e.g. 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777560 and 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues/21