Hi
I would like to promote these two tickets which both would help in a
multi device / multi user environment.
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1292
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2474
The number of users having just one desktop computer at home is
shrinking. And the number of users that actually wants to show the
photos through this computer should be even smaller.
I have a setup today that works decently but it's a bit cumbersome. I
run a script before starting shotwell which verifies that the DB &
photo-dir is readable on a NFS-drive. If OK, a lockfile is created and
then shotwell is started.
If I at this stage try to open shotwell from another computer, it fails
because of the lockfile.
After shotwell closes on computer #1 the lockfile is removed and the db
is now accessible again from other computers.
This works OK, although if share the thumbnails also it will be really
slow (at least over WiFi) but if you don't share them you will have lots
of missing thumbnails because I don't think missing thumbnails are
re-generated.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2387311/Screenshot%20at%202012-03-29%2009%3A20%3A40.png
The publishing part is worse. Since all edits in shotwell is
non-destructive I have to upload all photos to Picasa, THEN edit/rotate
etc. so that when I show my photos on my HTPC/Android Tablet etc. they
look as I want to. So even though I have a easier system in Shotwell for
this I can't use it because when I watch my photos at some other device
the changes won't be there.
Ps. Since the publishing part can take a long time it would be nice if
the process would be backgrounded, still letting you work in shotwell
and maybe queue one more publishing job.
Thanks for a nice photo manager, these issues aside :)
Rgds//Thomas
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