Jacob,

(CC-ing the mailing list again.)

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jacob Van Luyn <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks Adam,
>
> Your trick worked like a charm.


Glad to hear it.


> Thanks a bunch. It turns out they were mostly .gif, .bmp and .tiff files.
> I'll go ahead and peskily ask: any chance of future support for those file
> types?


Yes:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/601
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2154

Animated GIFs would be great too.


Those don't seem so common these days, so we haven't really considered
supporting them.  Feel free to file a ticket if you're interested in this.


> It would additionally be useful to be able to do the check you provided
> from Shotwell itself, or have incompatible files sorted in some fashion so
> that they're kept separate from the rest.
>

It seems that the most straightforward way to implement this would be to
have the import complete dialog have a button called Details which would
open a scrollable text area listing all files which didn't import for any
reason.  Again, if you're interested in this feel free to file a ticket to
put this on the table for future consideration.

>
> Also whilst I have your attention, is there (or will there be) a way to
> remove events without simply merging them all into one? I currently have no
> desire to sort my images by events. In fact I've set Shotwell's library
> location to be the same folder I want to import from, just so that the files
> won't be sorted into dated folders.
>

I hope it's clear that events and folders are unrelated.  The event tree is
stored purely in Shotwell's database, and shows your photos ordered by
time.  Independently of that, Shotwell places your photos in dated folders
when you import them.

In the future, we plan to add more trees to the Shotwell sidebar, and to let
the user show or hide them independently.  Thus, if you're uninterested in
the event view, you'll simply be able to hide it.  We also plan to give you
more control over where Shotwell places imported photos: this is
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597 .



> Thank you for your time and patience, especially if these questions have
> been answered already in the mailing list (I haven't subscribed), and thank
> you for your work on Shotwell itself, it's a marvellous little app and I
> think I'll be sending donations its way. :)
>

That would certainly be appreciated!

cheers
adam
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