On Saturday 20 June 2009 5:31:31 pm Evan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tim Zakharov <tzakha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > > > > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives > > > > an "alien" and feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the > > > > program is doing something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of > > space). > > > > > > Seeing as that's optional, yes you did. I find the copying useful since > > > well...if it didn't copy them, it'd be like GThumb, pretending to > > organize my > > > camera (not actually changing the filesystem by the way, just pretending) > > and > > > not getting the images onto the computer. You'd have to manually copy > > all the > > > images from the camera to the hard drive, then run GThumb/F-Spot. In > > that > > > case, why are they set to start when a camera is plugged in or an SD card > > > inserted? They'd be rather useless for the "getting stuff of the camera" > > > usecase (the usecase implied by their autolaunching). > > > > > In my case, I keep all photos on a large external drive to conserve > > space in my home directory, and import only the thumbnails into f-spot, > > so I must remember to uncheck this box each time, or it copies over the > > full jpgs to home/tim/Photos. This would quickly wipe out my free > > space, and needlessly make a duplicate of each photo (I already keep > > backups on another system). So in my case, as with Vincenzo, it is a > > feature I don't like. > > > I happen to quite like this feature, since I use it to copy pictures off my > camera and onto disk while importing them into F-Spot, and I think that > ought to be a fairly common use case. I would vote against removing this > feature, however perhaps the default should be to have it unchecked. Someone > should talk to upstream on that.
Or put it in the Preferences dialog. There's a section about importing photos already. So add "default to copying photos" and then that'd decide whethere that checkbox is checked or not by default in the dialog. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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