On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:44:27PM +0200, Peter DO Smith wrote: > Tying the logical model of your data to the physical model creates more > problems than it solves and greatly reduces flexibility.
We are both entitled to our opinions of course. If all your metadata persists in a shotwell sqlite3 database, the downside is that it's not available to any other application (unless that application is specifically written to open the shotwell database - which may or may not be documented or supported). Hence the already accepted suggestion to persist the metadata elsewhere, such as EXIF/XMP/IPTC, in ticket #1290. I am just pointing out that the filesystem path is another option for storing metadata which is highly accessible to a broad range of other applications and devices. Furthermore, I may want to be able to locate a picture quickly, for example to attach it to an E-mail. If the filesystem path is unrelated to any logical grouping, then I would have to (1) launch shotwell, (2) browse to the event, (3) ask shotwell to map this to the directory path, (4) navigate to that path in my mail client. Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
