Shotwell

Bug #645862
Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 645862

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john.yarger (john-yarger) wrote on 2010-10-14:

Jim,
Thanks for taking the time to thoroughly digest and quickly responding to my observations and concerns. And also teaching me the proper terms to use.

(1) It's good to hear that hierarchical tagging is coming soon.

(2) I believe that prior to 0.8.0, f-spot provided this type of right-mouse-button submenu using their hierarchical tagging to make it manageable -- but it appears to have removed now. Your suggest is good and would work even better if we could assign a photo to represent each tag and hierarchical tagging is implemented.

(3) A little more analysis on my part regarding those extra photos assigned 5 star ratings led me to realize an answer to a question I had. How would the importer handle the "modified" copies of files that f-spot stores in the same directories? The non-"Favorite" 5-star photos were always next to cropped-in "Favorite" 5-star photos. The importer appears to simply import both the original photo and the modified photo -- not much different than simply importing the actual photo library directly (since I have tags written to the files). Although I realize this is contrary to Shotwell's philosophy of storing the edits in a db (similar to picasa?), it would be nice if the two photos could be associated with each other like in f-spot. It would be super if a some code would be added to associate them in a way that the "Revert to Original" function to bring up the original photo.

(4) Thanks for cluing me in on the Rejected rating. I finally found "View->Filter Photos". I saw there that Ctrl+9 will show the All + Rejected. And it did. Interestingly, f-spot wrote "Hidden" to the photo file probably as a result of me configuring it to so with tags.

(5) During my import, the filename was not injected as the title for any of my photos. The title field is empty for each.

A couple additional questions/observations:
(6) Are there any plans to log the results of the import functions?

(7) The wiki's UsingShotwell0.7 does not describe how new photos are actually stored in the library after import. Is it by year/month/day of exposure, like f-spot?

(8) Are there plans to create an integrated Shotwell screensaver for gnome, like f-spot, of the favorite/5-star photos?

(9) I just imported my entire photo library on top of the f-spot import. It identified something like 33,000 duplicates and only imported 146 which must have been the broken linked photos Shotwell could not import based on my (slightly corrupted) f-spot db.

My learning Shotwell continues. Thanks for you assistance.

--John

Jim,
Thanks for taking the time to thoroughly digest and quickly responding to my observations and concerns.  And also teaching me the proper terms to use.

(1) It's good to hear that hierarchical tagging is coming soon.

(2) I believe that prior to 0.8.0, f-spot provided this type of right-mouse-button submenu using their hierarchical tagging to make it manageable -- but it appears to have removed now.  Your suggest is good and would work even better if we could assign a photo to represent each tag and hierarchical tagging is implemented.

(3) A little more analysis on my part regarding those extra photos assigned 5 star ratings led me to realize an answer to a question I had.  How would the importer handle the "modified" copies of files that f-spot stores in the same directories?  The non-"Favorite" 5-star photos were always next to cropped-in "Favorite" 5-star photos.  The importer appears to simply import both the original photo and the modified photo -- not much different than simply importing the actual photo library directly (since I have tags written to the files).   Although I realize this is contrary to Shotwell's philosophy of storing the edits in a db (similar to picasa?), it would be nice if the two photos could be associated with each other like in f-spot.  It would be super if a some code would be added to associate them in a way that the "Revert to Original" function to bring up the original photo.

(4) Thanks for cluing me in on the Rejected rating.  I finally found "View->Filter Photos".  I saw there that Ctrl+9 will show the All + Rejected.  And it did.  Interestingly, f-spot wrote "Hidden" to the photo file probably as a result of me configuring it to so with tags.

(5) During my import, the filename was not injected as the title for any of my photos.  The title field is empty for each.

A couple additional questions/observations:
(6) Are there any plans to log the results of the import functions?

(7) The wiki's UsingShotwell0.7 does not describe how new photos are actually stored in the library after import.  Is it by year/month/day of exposure, like f-spot?

(8) Are there plans to create an integrated Shotwell screensaver for gnome, like f-spot, of the favorite/5-star photos?

(9) I just imported my entire photo library on top of the f-spot import.  It identified something like 33,000 duplicates and only imported 146 which must have been the broken linked photos Shotwell could not import based on my (slightly corrupted) f-spot db.

My learning Shotwell continues.  Thanks for you assistance.

--John