Dotan Cohen wrote: > Also, I believe that the database location should be changed to the > photodir location. This would allows for three advantages:
I agree completely --- so much so that I've been using the photodir and basedir args to do this manually for quite a while. The big advantage for me is that I can back up all relevant info on my photos in one spot... > 1) F-spot could look in photodir for the database. If it finds it, > then it knows that the database is of the new format. If not, then it > will look in ~/.gnome2/f-spot, and create a new database in photodir > of the new format. Given that people can already put the database in this place, I wouldn't recommend making assumptions about the db based on the location. I'm pretty sure the db already has a version # in it... > 2) The new location would allows for multiple Library support. I know > that little work has been done on this, but here is the opportunity to > set the stage for this. I myself am looking forward to this > enhancement, assuming that it will one day be. Well - it works fine already with the command line args - I've got 3 different 'real' libraries I use, plus a few for testing... > 3) This would make testing new F-Spot builds easier and safer. If I > see that I'm in my 'real' photo collection, I know that I'm also on my > real database. There is no chance of me testing an F-spot build on my > real database by accident. One of the other reasons I put the db in the directory... Warren _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
