Sebastian,

On 08/12/2010 02:44 AM, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:02:57 -0700, Adam Dingle<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> You say that importing from a mounted Windows share "does not work" -=20
>> what do you mean by this?
>>      
> I select "import from folder" in my stock Ubuntu and I get the file
> chooser dialog. In this, I don't see my mounted Windows shares, so I
> cannot select it. Mounted windows shares, as in I used the standard
> "Connect to server"->  "Windows share" thingie in Ubuntu.
>    

You can of course open the mounted Windows share in Nautilus and drag 
the folder directly into Shotwell to import it.  But if you want to use 
the File->Import From Folder menu item instead, then you're right that 
Shotwell does not list network shares in the resulting dialog.  It would 
be nice to include them there: I've created a ticket at 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2392 .

>
> Sure thing it has to treat them as undated. I am no fan of using the
> files mtime, which is pretty meaningless on my system as I copied the
> files around over the years and the mtime has been changed a couple of
> time. I would rather see them remain as undated, as squeezing my 1999
> photos into 2006, just because I happened to copy them around then.
>    

I'm inclined to agree: the mtime may well be meaningless and I think 
it's safer not to use it.

>> By the way, Shotwell does currently include an Undated folder (mentioned
>> in http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1632) but that's not quite what you're
>> looking for.  The Undated folder contains all events which Shotwell
>> can't place under any year in the sidebar tree because those events
>> contain only undated photos.  Currently Shotwell does not place undated
>> photos into any event at import time, but you can still place them into
>> events manually, at which time those events will be in the Undated folder.
>>      
> That is interesting and certainly not the case in 0.6.1 (or I missed it
> even after looking explicitly for it). One more reason to switch to trunk.
>    

The Undated folder *is* present in 0.6.1.  To see it, import a photo 
which has no EXIF date, then select the photo and and choose Events->New 
Event.  The photo will be placed in a new event, which will appear in 
the Undated folder because the photo in the event has no date.

>> I assume that you realize that you can right click any tag in the
>> sidebar and choose the Rename command to rename it.  It's true that
>> Shotwell doesn't let you rename a tag only in a selected set of photos,
>> however.
>>      
> DOH, it is so obvious now that you say that. No, I had not tried to do
> that. However, it only solves my problem partially. My son's name is
> Oliver, so I have a frequently used tag "Oliver". On a couple of photos
> I mistyped and typed "oliver" (hey, why case sensitivity BTW?!!! :-)).
>    

You're right: I think there's not much reason for Shotwell tag names to 
be case-sensitive.  I've filed a ticket to fix this at 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2391 .

> - I had a couple of crashes (3 or so) at seemingly random points.
>    
>> Again, if you could get us backtraces for these we'd be eternally=20
>> grateful.  :)
>>      
> I'll get into a habit of running shotwell trunk under gdb :)
>    

Alternatively, you could set up your machine to generate a core dump 
whenever an application crashes, and then use gdb to get a backtrace 
from the core dump afterward.  That might be easier since you wouldn't 
need to run under gdb every time.  If you want more detailed advice 
about how to do this then just let me know.

adam

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