I have a similar concern some weeks ago and I tried a quite different solution which I copy/paste here because it may interest you also:
I had some thought about how multiples computer's users (for instance, > families members) can each use a different session but can share photos in > Shotwell. > > I think that in order to do that, Shotwell just have to monitor different > directories, which may be something like: > /home/*dad*/Images > /home/*mam*/Images > /home*/.../*Images > Obviously, this is actually not possible because there is only one > directory that can be defined has the "library". But I seems to me that when > bug "* #2790 <http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2790>: monitor outside library > directory*" will be implemented, we will have everything needed to allow > to monitors and display photos from the different computer's users. > > A prerequisite is that the tags should be stored inside the photo file in > order to avoid having to defined them twice or more... > > Then we will probably need something that allows to protect the privacy of > some photos... In my opinion, the best way to achieve this is by using the > file and directory permissions (from the system) which defined who can read > or write each file. Maybe Shotwell can had an interface for that in order > to avoid that the user change it in Nautilus? > Adams answer: > Actually this is possible today, because Shotwell follows symbolic links > when importing. So you could create symbolic links like this: > > /home/dad/Images/mom -> /home/mom/Images > /home/mom/Images/dad -> /home/dad/Images > > If you do this, then both 'dad' and 'mom' will see all of each others' > images. If you set this up, you probably want to enable auto-import. > Your main concern is that events won't be synced and need to be created two times. However, it adds a new feature that sharing of database doesn't allow: you can define which images/folder you want to share or keep private. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
