Shotwell 0.5

[Nicu Buculei]

On 03/15/2010 05:25 PM, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:50 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>
>> For me Shotwell fails the usefulness test very quickly as it has to
>> "import" the photos, by copying them in the Pictures dir on my home. For
>> me this is unworkable, as having tens of thousands of photos, summing
>> hundreds of GB stored on external drives, I need to keep the files into
>> place.
>>
> I haven't given it a shot either, but... I just cannot help but remind
> you of mount --bind... But more seriously -- If you read the page more
> throughout you'd know it actually does not need to copy the photos to
> ~/Pictures:
>
> " If you hold down Ctrl+Shift while dragging photos in, Shotwell will
> import the photos without copying them."

I am sorry, I read the page extremely briefly I am swamped with a taks 
somewhat related to the topic: have a massive photo set (over 3500 
images) made over the last week-end and try to put some sanity into it 
(so I *do* care about managing photos).

> But indeed, at the very least on live spin, the default behaviour should
> be to import the photos *without* copying them.


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