Thanks for the helpful response. I have a few follow-up questions below. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:07:53AM -0800, Lucas Beeler wrote: > > (1) > Raw handling has improved significantly in Shotwell 0.11.x. I'd highly > recommend that you upgrade by either building Shotwell from source or > using one of the RPMs Thomas has pointed to. If you do want to build > from source instead of using an unofficial binary, see the > instructions on the Shotwell Installation Page: > http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/
I'll plan on trying the unofficial RPM. It looks like Thomas has made some progress on the Fedora issue for this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735284 > (2) > The closest thing Shotwell has to folders are Tags -- and these are > probably what you want anyway, at least for inter-application data > exchange, since there are very well established standards for encoding > tag information in photo metadata. If you want to make the best use of > Tags in Shotwell, you should definitely upgrade to Shotwell 0.11.x > since these releases support "hierarchical tags" that can be nested > one inside another, similar to the way folders nest on disk. Hmm. It looks like tags might not quite be right. If I drag a photo into one of the tags in the left pane, it adds the tag to the photo rather than replacing the previous tag (at least in Shotwell 0.10). For organization, it seems like events align a little more closely. The main problem, whether using tags or events, is how to get them synchronized with the folder structure on disk. Is there a setting to make Shotwell move the photo between directories when moving it from one event to another? If it can auto-read events by looking at the directory and auto-write events by moving between directories, then actually writing to the file metadata is unnecessary for exchange between applications. > (3) > Yes. Just select all the photos you want to publish in the multiple > photos view (also called the "contact sheet" or "checkerboard view") > and then click the "Publish" icon. Likewise for emailing with "Send > to..." I think I didn't see this earlier because photos were still being imported. Now that it's done, it looks like this works great. Thank you. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
