Kent,
On 01/24/2011 01:21 PM, Kent Tenney wrote:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Eric Gregory<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
We're working on an often-requested new feature, a user configurable
directory structure, and would like community feedback on how this would
best suit your needs.
This feature allows you to set a directory structure for your photos instead
of being forced to use Shotwell's default.
For now, we're wondering if we want to support hard-coded options only, for
example, we might have the following options:
YYYY/MM/DD
YYYY/MM-DD
YYYY/MM
YYYY_MM_DD
Perhaps there's others you'd like to see?
Not sure if I follow, but ... I have many years of photos in a directory
structure I've evolved, and has meaning to me, so I import "In Place"
("importing in place" sounds like an oxymoron to me) ... links aren't involved
... I choose not to duplicate all the files.
I would like the option of the tree panel showing _my_ directory structure.
Currently, structure is only time-based: "Events" (which I'd call something
more like "Timeline") I'm thinking of structure reflecting "Location" where
Location consists of directories, some time-based, some project-based some
source-based ...
Yes - we'd also like Shotwell to have a folder tree in the sidebar
showing where photos are physically located on disk. But that's a
separate feature, namely http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594 , and will
not make 0.9. For 0.9, we're only planning to implement
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597 , which will let the user control
where Shotwell places photos which are imported from a camera or copied
into your library directory.
I think Shotwell intends tags to provide the structure I'm describing, and
they probably can, though I don't know if tags accommodate nesting.
I would like if they were hierarchal.
Tags in Shotwell cannot be nested today, though we're hoping to
implement hierarchical tags for 0.9: see
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401 . We don't intend tags to be used to
reflect photos' physical locations on disk; instead we want a separate
sidebar tree for that as I mentioned above.
Another option is to support a free-form entry with date formatting
characters to make your own directory structure. For example, you might
type in something like
%Y%/%M%/%D%
to achieve the current directory structure.
Additionally, we're looking to add a feature where you can assign a name to
your import. This could also be added to the directory structure.
I'd like each import to persist by default, now we only have the last
import available.
Agreed: that's http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1793 . This is also
unlikely to make 0.9, however.
adam
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