On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Thomas Novin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to promote these two tickets which both would help in a > multi device / multi user environment. > > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1292 > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2474 > > The number of users having just one desktop computer at home is > shrinking. And the number of users that actually wants to show the > photos through this computer should be even smaller. > ...
Yes - we definitely want to evolve Shotwell to the point where we can sync photos easily. I think the right first step will be modifying Shotwell so that it keeps an up-to-date copy of each edited image on disk (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1798). Once we do that, you'll be able to sync simply by copying files between Shotwell libraries, so you'll be able to use tools outside Shotwell for syncing. It would also be nice if Shotwell could store metadata (including a list of all edits made) either in XMP data in photo files or in sidecar files (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1879). Then edit information would travel along with photos when they are copied between libraries. These enhancements are not small and will not all happen right away, though. > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2387311/Screenshot%20at%202012-03-29%2009%3A20%3A40.png > > The publishing part is worse. Since all edits in shotwell is > non-destructive I have to upload all photos to Picasa, THEN edit/rotate > etc. so that when I show my photos on my HTPC/Android Tablet etc. they > look as I want to. So even though I have a easier system in Shotwell for > this I can't use it because when I watch my photos at some other device > the changes won't be there. Right. Once we implement http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1798 this should work much better. > Ps. Since the publishing part can take a long time it would be nice if > the process would be backgrounded, still letting you work in shotwell > and maybe queue one more publishing job. Yes, that would be nice: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2318 adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
