> Rethinking it, I think you are right here. Definitely as a first step > this is the way to go. I'm still concerned about the following usage > pattern: > > Joe Blow hears about F-Spot and decides to give it a try. > He imports a bunch of photos and tags them. > He realizes he's almost out of space on /home, but has plenty in a > separate partition /files > He wants to change to have /files/Photos be his new import directory > He wants to have all of his photos together for simplicity/backup/etc
It concerns me a bit also... but I think it's too big for this goal (or we can't close and test this discussion in the 3 weeks window). But there's a hope for Joe Blow. Uh, no, 3 hopes, at least: - expunge f-spot, move his collection, re-import it (with the XMP import). a minor issue is the versioned images. Check the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342138 for the minor issue - use the batch rename http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302566 - and the best one... f-spot should detect changes (moves, rename, deletes) on files using gnome-vfs > From what I understand of the current plan, the first photos he > imported would stay in ~/Photos, and new imports would go > to /files/Photos? Is this ideal? What if he is a non-English speaker > and Photos doesn't make any sense to him? Again, this may be > something we need to accept giving the 2 week constraint, and just > having in the ability to change it would be a big step forward. > For non english speakers, what about setting the default to GetString("Photos") ? So, at first run, f-spot will create the localized Photos directory, *store it* in gconf, and f-spot will find it whatever the locale defined at runtime ? Is this a good solution ? > > My only other thought is, remember the request that the DB > be moved > > into Photos? Is that something we want to consider at this > point? It > > seems the ideal for the multiple albums case as well as the > > portability case. That way its all stored in one bunch. If > nothing > > else it touches on a lot of the same issues as these bugs, > so we > > should probably take it into account with this > patch. Unless we > > decide to discard it. > > > Oops, forget about this... my opinion, again: keep the default db for default users in a safe place. And let's other users do place their db where they want > This still appeals to me, but is again outside the current goal. same feeling. this part of the goal will open the door to a lot of new functionalities in the future (I think about handling multi-albums from the main UI), but we need to do it step by step, to rely on solid foundations. Thanks for your comments Stephane > > > Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list -- Stephane Delcroix [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
