Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2010-08-27 kell 11:20, kirjutas Adam Dingle: > > I know that many users would also like to be able to drag photos to > applications other than Nautilus, as suggested in this thread. The > reason we can't do that today is that Shotwell doesn't currently keep > up-to-date full-resolution photos on hard disk, and it's hard to > generate these on the fly at drag-and-drop time due to the way that > GTK > drag and drop works. The solution is to (optionally) have Shotwell > generate full-resolution copies on disk after every edit > (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1798). That will use more disk space, > but > will make drag and drop to applications work.
My random thoughts, skip if in hurry: Maybe a special "Drag selected photos from here" button workaround (instead of fixing GTK): 1. Select your photo/photos in Shotwell 2. Press this button, it shows animation while /tmp is populated with prepared files. 3. Animation ends with text "Photos ready for dragging! Start drag from here". It would be inconsistent with nautilus dragging, which works directly, would require an extra step to learn. Or another way: 1. Start dragging while holding mouse down, shotwell flashes "Please wait while pictures are prepared!" 2. When finished, it is indicated, the dragging properties change and it can not only be dropped into nautilus, but also into other applications. 3. Release your mouse to drop. With a fair amount of images this might take only seconds. Yet another: Use "Export basket" (you could use temporary tags for this already): Let's say on left side there is export basket, where you can drop photos. The exporting to /tmp starts when pictures land there, so you could drag from there instantly, no extra buttons needed. Export basket accompanies with picking different export resolutions really well. Also why not have different effects, especially for web use (photo frames, randomly rotated images, white border, drop shadow etc, so you could directly drag your photo into web3 blog). Enough of random ideas. Shotwell already is wonderful. Mattias _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
