On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Lucas B. Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> OTOH, in my personal case, it would be enough in the sense that it would
> bring me something new, as opposed to a comfort improvement to something
> I can already achieve in a much less elegant way at the moment (I resort
> to importing developed images back into shotwell, alongside the original
> ones taken from my camera, by re-importing Shotwell's photo import folder)
>
> So I guess it depends who you ask.

Of course.

>> I suspect, while more versatile,
>> specially for the advanced user, your idea is harder to implement. It
>> all depends on how ingrained the "1-raw-for-1-image" relationship is
>> in the internals of shotwell. Both in the pipeline as in the UI.
>
> It's quite probably a more costly idea, yes. I've tried to make a
> suggestion that is as simple as I can imagine in terms of UI (extra
> nodes in the side pane) and in terms of automation (none) in the issue
> where it's been discussed [1], but I'm aware it means

I like both your proposal and also Bruno's suggestion[2] you linked in
a previous post. While ticket #9020 deals more with grouping "physical
images" (different developments of 1 raw or diferent source jpegs),
Bruno's is more about having various "virtual images" (sets of changes
stored in the database). I am not sure if both issues can be treated
as one, and presented transparently to the user as such, or if they
are fundamentally different problems.

[1 raw] -> N jpegs -> M virtual images

> How deep-trenched is the 1-to-1 relationship between raw master and
> developed image, was pretty much what I was wondering when I asked
> "Would it be breaking important fundamental assumptions about data
> structures [...] ?" in my previous message. I must confess to not having
> your coding skills, and never having looked at the Shotwell sources, so
> I don't have any kind of concrete answer.

Neither do I. But discussing this matter has helped me a lot to get a
clearer picture of the problem. And the code is out there, for all of
us to delve into. As soon as I get a little time (been a bit busy with
other projects), and if you or the shotwell devs don't beat me to it,
I'll see what can be done.

Regards & thanks for your help,
Camilo

[2] http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2474
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