On 2010-08-27, Peter DO Smith wrote: > Yes, that would be advantageous, though, speaking as a developer, I think it > is much easier to work with the sqlite3 database. Its structure is easily > deduced by inspection.
I disagree here. Yes, it is easily deduced but it still very app-specific. That that fspot import flaw that was recently fixed as an example. Older f-spot versions did not populate a specific database column which shotwell expected, leading to only a subset of photos being imported by shotwell. The best is to a) use agreed on metadata in the files themselves, so it doesn't matter whether I use f-spot or shotwell, or eog to inspect a file. And which will still work if I simply archive my photos and move them to the next computer. b) systems that have been explicitely created to share meta-data among applications as the tracker app which is part of gnome3 is supposed to be doing. > > 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, That's why shotwell needs the "send by email" function :P > One of the features I would like to see is the ability to drag a photo from > Shotwell and drop it into the email I am composing. Gmail (which I use) > already has a drag and drop interface for attachments but sadly I cannot > access it from Shotwell. +1 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
