On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 13:44 +0300, Janne Ojaniemi wrote: > Hello list > > I have two users using my GNOME-machine. And I have quite a few pictures > stored on that machine. Now, the way they way my pictures are stores is > that I have bunch of subdirectories in /multimedia/pics that are split > by category. All pictures in those various categories have been imported > to F-spot. The benefit of this scheme is that I can view those pictures > in F-spot, and I can view them sensibly outside F-spot as well. > > Now, would F-spot "just work", if I have two separate users working on > those pictures (not at the same time of course)? How would versioning > work? And secondly (and maybe more importantly): How could I make it so > that when one user imports pictures to those folders, they would become > visible in the other users F-spot as well? Basically, I would like > F-spot to monitor the filesystem, and automatically import pictures that > appear in certain folders. Maybe I could manually tell it to import pics > from certain folder, but I'm afraid that if I keep on re-importing > certain folder, I would end up with bunch of duplicate pictures. Or does > F-spot know not to re-import same pictures over and over again?
Hi, F-Spot today stores the Photos directory as well as the F-Spot internal database under the user's home directory (~/Photos, as well as ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db). Of course when you import the photos, you could choose to only link to the photos, then F-Spot would just store a reference to your existing photo in its database. Unfortunately, todays version of f-spot is a single user application, and you can not share the database between users. Check the following bugs for more information: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331953 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323966 You could hack it, and link the ~/.gnome2/f-spot directory to a shared directory somewhere I guess. There is a duplicate patch that are on its way into F-Spot. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169646 I also created an enhancement bug for F-Spot to be able to monitor a directory for new photos. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341729 /Bengt _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
