I feel like this is too complicated for this feature. And worse, if it's turned off and two months later the user forgets, their imported photos may wind up in the wrong place, which can be a very frustrating experience.
Expanding the menu bar is possible, but it seems like more noise in the menu bar. The user is going to have to navigate a dialog box (the file chooser) in any event, so it's not really saving a whole lot of time. What if Shotwell inserted a custom checkbox widget into the file chooser? It could be a combo box with the In Place / Copy To choices for the user to pick. That might be a middle ground here. Also, these possible solutions don't handle drag-and-drop. We would need to keep the dialog for that use case. -- Jim On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Joseph Bylund <[email protected]> wrote: My suggestion was to not show the box again next time. Maybe under edit->preferences->library tab->importing add a radio button or drop down with three options, "in place", "copy" and "ask me every time"? The biggest issue I could see is that doing a one-off import then becomes slightly annoying for users that usually, but not always, do one of the two. A possible solution to that would be having file->import from folder expand to the "import in place" and "copy files" options, if import from folder remained click-able then it could perform the default action: file ├── import_from_app └── import_from_folder ├── copy_files └── in_place -Joe On 10/03/2012 04:48 PM, Jim Nelson wrote: > My only concern here is that if we do offer that checkbox, how would the user > be able to un-check it? I assume that your suggestion is not to show the > dialog box again if it's checked. > > -- Jim > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Joseph Bylund wrote: >> Didn't find a feature request for this, but I've been known to use the wrong >> search terms before, so asking the list: >> >> Some users (myself included) always select the same option for "import in >> place" or "copy photos" in the import dialogue. Imports could be made >> slightly less complicated for these users by including a checkbox to >> "remember this choice next time". >> >> -Joe >> _______________________________________________ >> Shotwell mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
