Regarding the settings not persisting, others (who are running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) have seen this problem as well. It's because they haven't installed a full set of dconf packages, which is how gsettings persist configuration information. Without it, gsettings defaults to a memory-based backing, which, as you might guess, go away when the program exits.
More information in this thread: http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/2011-September/002958.html -- Jim On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Dougie Nisbet <[email protected]>wrote: > I've just, after a bit of a struggle, managed to get Shotwell 0.11.1 > running on Linux Mint LXDE. I've been using f-spot for the last few years > but things are pretty quiet on that scene at the moment and the introduction > of hierarchical tags into shotwell made me decide to give it another try. > > I'm a bit exasperated because I wanted to parallel run f-spot and shotwell > before deciding on whether to switch. My f-spot photos are in /jpegs, and I > created a new directory /images for shotwell. > > In preferences I changed the destination to /images (currently empty) and > then for some reason shotwell spent a few minutes 'refreshing library'. > shotwell didn't seem to want to remember my setting (changing it back to > 'File System') so exited and restarted a couple of times and eventually the > setting persisted. > > I selected import and chose my default f-spot database. The import appeared > to be going well but I noticed that nothing was appearing in /images. When I > checked shotwell progress I noticed it was periodically writing metadata to > the file (a setting I'd enabled), but it was writing the information to the > files in their original location (/jpegs). I aborted the import. > > I know that I can import directly from a folder location but I notice that > if I do this it doesn't retain the hierarchical tag structure that I want. > > One thing I always do with f-spot is run it in debug mode so that I can see > what's going on in a terminal window, and there doesn't appear to be a > verbose or debug option in shotwell. > > So, in a nutshell. I want to import my f-spot database and copy them to a > new location (although it is a bit academic now as shotwell has overwritten > the metadata for a lot of the originals :( ). Is this likely to be a bug or > NewUser Error? > > Dougie > > ______________________________**_________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell> > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
