Just what I wanted to know, thanks. I'm not sure if I'll have time to grok the Shotwell code vs just hacking together a script but the docs look quite good so I might give it a go. Either way, I'll put the work on github.
-Shaun On 28 September 2012 10:10, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Shaun Crampton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to import a library from iPhoto with lots of > adjusted/cropped/rotated photos. I'd like to keep the originals safe but > also import my edited copies for display. Does shotwell support anything > like that (managing an original and externally-edited file) at present or > is all its editing done by reapplying edits at display time? > > > Both are true. :) If you make edits within Shotwell, Shotwell doesn't > write those out to the external file - instead, the edits are reapplied at > display time. But if you use Shotwell's Open With External Editor command > to edit a photo with a program such as GIMP, then Shotwell manages both the > original and the externally edited file. Typically the original will have > a name like IMG_0729.JPG and the externally edited file will be named like > IMG_0729_modified.JPG. > > Unfortunately Shotwell isn't smart enough to be able to import both the > original and modified versions of a photo and associate them with each > other. If you import from a directory containing IMG_0729.JPG and > IMG_0729_modified.JPG, these will be imported as two separate photos. > > > > If the support is there I can probably write a script to import the > database (iPhoto seems to maintain an XML doc listing the library and > shotwell uses sqlite) but I don't really want to have to re-edit 20,000 > photos! > > > It would certainly be nice if Shotwell could import from an iPhoto > database while preserving both the original and modified versions of each > photo. You could consider implementing this as a Shotwell plugin, since > Shotwell allows plugins to provide new import sources (importing from > F-Spot is implemented via such a plugin). Cheers - > > adam > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
