Son, On 08/11/2010 06:12 PM, Son Hua wrote: > Hi all, > > More on the undated photos problem. I think that the way Shotwell > organizes photos according to events is limited not only for undated > photos but also photos we have classified (manually) before.
Agreed. We hope to improve this. > > Say, I collect a number of photos on the internet, for example, photos > related to motion, and put them into a folder named Motion before. Now > I want to import these photos into Shotwell. The way of organising > with events will simply scatter my photos to different dates and I'll > have no way to find them among other events at the moment. Even if > some of them can be found manually, how can I tag all newly imported > photos with the tag "motion"? In the upcoming 0.7 release (and in the trunk today) there's a Last Import sidebar item which shows you all the photos you've just imported. So after your import you can select Last Import, select all photos in the view and then choose Tags->Add Tags. > > I love to use Shotwell for its simplicity, but the way of using event > to organise stuffs automatically is just too limited and does not fit > well for me. Are Shotwell developers having any plans to allow custom > organization, or simply using existing folder names to organize > (similar to Lightroom), or any other more efficient approaches? We plan to add a file tree to the sidebar which lets you browse your photos according to their layout on hard disk (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594). That will be convenient to use if you've already organized them into disk folders. As Vincent pointed out in another message, we'd also like let the user customize the import directory hierarchy, which is currently fixed at year/month/day (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597). It might also be nice if the user could attach tags during import (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1586) and/or rename photos to a user-configurable pattern when importing (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1942). Hopefully some of these improvements will come in the next couple of releases after 0.7. As always, we welcome feedback about which of these would be most valuable to you. cheers adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
