Hi Lu, On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Lu Timdale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Just tried the latest and greatest version of Shotwell. > > > I'm eagerly getting ready to unleash it on my large photo collection, so > I've been giving each new version a quick test. My comments for 0.11 are > below. > > 1. Corruption of dates on import seems to be fixed. > > I had an issue previously when some dates got mixed up on the file system > during import... problem is now gone. Yeh! > > Excellent! > > 2. Boolean searches > Love the enhancements there, and it just seems to work. All the most > important ones are there. > This could be expanded even further though... > I can think of a few others that I would use if it was available > > - camera make / model / lens > - shutter speed / iso / exposure / program (Auto/Aperture/Shutter/Man) / > flash fired > - file size > These are good ideas, and we do hope to implement these someday. Please have a look at http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3612 > > 3. Tags. > Hierarchical tags work great. Apart from a few accessibility issues, they > are very usable. > I expected one feature when clicking on "Tags"... the top level tag, any > photo with a any tag set would be shown. Possibility for a future version? > This is also a sound idea; I'll open a ticket for it right away. > > 4. Files / Events > > I like that allowing a custom folder structure on import has been > implemented, but in order to support my workflow as is, I would need to > > A) > > - import to my custom folder structure in shotwell > > - rename the folders by enriching with a comment (in nautilus) > - rename the files with an external tool (phatch?) > - restart shotwell to update index to point to new folders/file names. > > or > B) > > - use something else for import to shotwell's library directory > > - start shotwell (with watch library) to update > > > Ideally, I would like this to be done without leaving shotwell. This is > probably the one main outstanding reason I'm not using shotwell > exclusively. I'm waiting for any/all of these. > > - rename photo files themselves on import > - add event names on import > > - move files when modifying dates / changing event names > > - either reflect event structure in file structure (and vice versa), or > expose folder view > - create events based on existing folder names (for existing library) > > I'll bring all this up with the rest of the team and open a ticket for the ability to automatically rename files on import. It seems like that, along with having http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3549 in place would definitely help. > > 5. Scalability > I now have 130GB collection of 50K+ photos and videos. Waiting for the > "scale to 100K photos" feature as I think it may impact me. > > Indeed. My own collection is much smaller, only about fifteen hundred photos, but I've already noticed that, say, adding a tag to several hundred of them at a time can occasionally bog down a bit. Heavy work on scaling well up to very large libraries hasn't begun yet, but it is definitely something really want to do. > > > With every release, I'm left wanting for less and less. > > > Thank you for a great job. > You're welcome, we're glad you like it. And thank you, too; there's no way we'd be able to find and correct all of the issues without user feedback. Cheers, -c _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
