On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Eivind LM <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with you that manual selection might be the only way that can work > for all cases of incorrect clock. So I think basing the feature on manual > selection is totally fine. At some point shotwell might let me select photos > from one import roll, and adjusting all photos from one import roll > (possibly with some exclutions) is my most common use case. > > So let's assume we have a (manual) selection of photos that we wish to > shift in time. The current "Adjust Date and Time.." dialog does exactly this > (applies a time offset to the selected photos). But the main limitation here > is that it expects me to know the correct adjustment parameter in advance. > When the parameter is unknown, I have to apply some guessed value to the > photos, then (unless I guessed correctly) open the dialog again and guess a > new adjustment, and so on. > > My feature request is a GUI that assists me to find the correct parameter > for a selection of photos quickly and without too much guessing. > > There might be several ways to realize this, but I think the easiest way > would be to extend the "Adjust date and time" dialog such that the time on > the selected photos are updated whenever I make any change to the time > adjustment field (without closing the dialog). I can then first make big > steps in the time adjustment field to get the ordering approximately right, > then make smaller and smaller steps until I am happy with the photo > sequence. It must be possible to scroll and zoom the photo list behind the > dialog, so I can examine the sequence closely, without closing the dialog. I > close the dialog when I am happy with the sequence. If I cancel the dialog, > all times should be reset to their original value (for example in case I > realize the selection is incorrect and need to add or remove some photos). > > Another option would be to have a special GUI where I can specify that > "photo A was taken at the same time as photo B", and/or "photo D was taken > somewhere between photo E and F". After giving a couple of such conditions, > the time adjustment parameter could be found by solving a system of > equations. But that might be a bit overkill :) > > Eivind > I think this sounds like a reasonable feature request. I filed a ticket for it here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3651 Feel free to leave comments, etc. in the ticket. - Eric _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
