OK, you guys are way ahead of me. Regarding the original question, polling us for directory name preferences: All my photos are in directories named yyyy-mm-dd Each directory names the day I unload my camera, an "import" in Shotwellese. I find splitting year/month/day a bit too granular, the import = directory system is comfortable for me, from that directory I can apply tags, which offer the required structure: clients, categories, subjects ...
Import=directory also makes it easy to maintain a CD archive. Thanks, Kent On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
