On 22/08/2013 09:44, Michael Hendry wrote:
On 22 Aug 2013, at 09:32, Matt Wallis <[email protected]> wrote:
I see in the text of that ticket repeated use of the tern
"event". What is an "event"? To me, it is not an obvious
concept in the domain of managing photos.
Shotwell supports the idea of grouping images into Events - e.g. "Jim & Mary's Wedding",
or "Killers Gig at Wembley".
Having no information to go on apart from the date-stamp in the file, when
Shotwell imports an image it allocates it an event corresponding to the date.
If you run more than one import session, you'll end up with more than one event
for that date.
Thanks for that clear explanation. As Andy Stevens pointed out, I can
see why this is a cause of confusion. It confused me! For me, Events and
Dates are separate concepts that can co-exist: my holiday (an "event")
ran over many days; more than one event can be depicted in the same
photo (Jim and Mary's Wedding at the Killers Gig at Wembley!). As I now
understand it, an import is modelled as a set of events - one for each
day on which the imported photos were taken. I had made the mistake of
thinking that the default view provided my Shotwell is of the natural
hierarchy provided by dates.
This is now getting way off topic. I think I might open a new thread to
ask about tagging and non-hierarchical views :-)
Matt.
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