Vladimir Nadvornik wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2009 00:15:15 Omari Stephens wrote: >> I found today that new geeqie creates ~/.local/share/geeqie/metadata but >> doesn't migrate ~/.geeqie/metadata/... over. Why not? I almost flipped >> out when it seemed like geeqie had lost the tags from the thousands and >> thousands of photos I've looked through in recent months. >> > > This is one of the bugs I speak about in every release announcement ;) > > Seriously, I don't want to pollute the code with workarounds for > compatibility > with alphas. A realistic goal is to keep compatibility between stable > versions. On my older machine, I have paths in ~/.gqview/metadata/... dating back to April, 2007, which is long before I had ever heard of geeqie. If we're going to support migrating that data over, it seems like a no-brainer to support migration from ~/.geeqie/metadata/... as well.
Furthermore, not supporting alphas makes sense in theory. In practice, though, we're talking about all the metadata that geeqie (not gqview) users may have collected in the past _year_ — my oldest metadata file in .geeqie is dated June 18, 200_8_. Some sort of migration script might work, but pretending that this entire year didn't happen is not a very viable option. >> That said, I migrated things by hand (with rsync) and all seems well. >> > > I am thinking about a script that converts gqview metadata. Geeqie alpha > metadata could be probably added too. The script can be added to menu with a > desktop file and even hide itself after the conversion is done. I had no problems with the metadata format; the problem was the location. When I moved the metadata from ~/.geeqie/metadata... to ~/.local/share/geeqie/metadata/..., everything started working properly again. --xsdg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
