Hello. I recently installed shotwell and imported my photo directory. Even if shotwell isn't perfect (nor ready) yet I'm already quite impressed. Before this I haven't found any sofware which could've even managed to import my ~26000 photos. Here's some initial toughts of mine, I'm quite sure someone else has already suggested these, so if someone gets annoyed by 'repost' I'm sorry.
However, even with shotwell there's this one design/ideology issue which isn't even near optimal on todays world. Every application, including shotwell, thinks that there's "My photos", not "Our photos". So, even if it's possible, the default setting is that there's no one else on same computer/network who'd want to access those family photos as well. Obviously that's a problem to balance between easy setup and additional features, but I'd really like to see support for some 'real' database in addition to sqlite. Currently I'm running shotwell on NFS-share, which kind-of-works, but I can't use shotwell simultaneously from multiple computers due to database access. The same scenario applies with multiuser-computer, since if user A has shotwell running and user B tries to open it in a new session it doesn't work either. Optimal solution would be to add setting/something for MySQL/PSql/Sqlite so that if user doesn't want (or can't) setup an real database sqlite would do and for "experienced" users it'd still be an option. Another issue I ran into, related to shared access, is that for some reason shotwell starts up _really_ slowly when I access database and photos over wifi-link & NFS. Startup takes several minutes and most of the time waiting there's little or no traffic at all on wlan0. I understand that ie. opening sqlite over slow(ish) link takes some time, but since there's no traffic I don't know what's taking so long. Startup progress goes up to 48% and stalls there for a good while. Most likely this would be solved with "real" database server instead of sqlite, but that's a bit annoying anyways. Anyways, keep up the good work! I really do like and appreciate the work of dev-team so far. Thank you all. -- Take _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
