Hi all, I just tested the latest release on my 8k photo set and worked for 8 hours with shotwell. Propably a lot has already changed since then, but anyway here is my feedback:
First the ugly: - Importing from a Ubuntu-mounted Windows share does not work I then tried to import from ~/.gvfs/blabla which imported about 3k photos or so before shotwell simply crashed (repeatedly). Copying the share to my desktop and importing from a local folder worked fine though. - Some of my images were undated, although shotwell had imported them into folders that made sense (2005/07/15/foo.jpg) etc. Is that due to a lack of exiv information? I can debug the specific photo files in question. - The worst thing overall, is that I was not able to find those undated photos in my list, as I worked along my events and it does not seem to be possible to filter photos that are not assigned to an event. Am I right that this would be: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1632? (always place Undated folder at bottom of event list) In general it would be great to be able to search for undated photos and/or photos that are not assigned to any one event. I nearly overlooked a couple of events (like my marriage) because those photos never showed up under any "event". - Adding a tag over multiple photos works fine, but modifying does not. This hurt when I discovered I had mistyped a tag and wanted to mass-rename a tag. I know that some mp3 taggers show all common tags if you select multiple and allow you to mass-rename common tags among files. This would have helped me. - Tag autocompletion please :) (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1334). Typing the name of my son over and over again was tiresome and very prone to typos. - I ended up with quite many tags. If I had a simple search bar that dynamically reduced the list of tags to those potentially matching that would help me find appropriate tags more easily. I guess that is different from the more generic issue: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/80 (Search box) which would also be helpful. (Find all images of my son in 2009 etc) - A couple times I had clicked on an image in the viewer and the arrow keys would move the image around rather than navigating the image collection. Call me stupid but I had a hard time finding where I had to click to get back to the navigating. Not sure what could be done about this if at all. - I had a couple of crashes (3 or so) at seemingly random points. - I would love to have a script that exports the events and hashes of my image library, so I can import the same events to a different computer which contains the same images. That would probably not be part of shotwell proper, but would help me to transfer the work I did on the train on my laptop to my main media workstation. Is there something like this already? The beautiful (shorter list, but I am overall very positive :)): - Intuitive and nicely thought out in general - I love that merging events always kept the already manually renamed event, doing away with the dates as names. In general creating events and merging was painless. - Red-eye removal worked great and easy - Nice image viewer - Images were rotated correctly from the outset. Yay. - Importing added tags for those tags that I had added via gthumb to the photos previously. WOnderful! For the same reasons, I'd love shotwell to add the tags directly to the exiv headers of my originals so the work is not lost when I move to the next photo app ;-). Thanks for shotwell, spaetz _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
