[Shotwell] Multi-threading Publish Photos

Adam Dingle adam at yorba.org
Thu Jul 22 08:22:08 PDT 2010


Peter,

On 07/22/2010 05:52 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote:
> I have found that when publishing photos (to Picasa in my case) that I can
> no longer use the rest of Shotwell. This is a problem for me when publishing
> a larger number of photos on a relatively slow broadband link. So I would
> like to suggest that you multi-thread the Publish Photos function.

Yes - I agree this would be nice.  I thought we had an outstanding 
ticket for this but apparently we didn't, so I just created one here:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2318

> I appreciate that there are some consequent problems, for example you would
> probably need to lock the selected records against any further change until
> the publishing function has completed.
>    

Yes - implementing this would be non-trivial.  I still hope we can at 
some point.  :)

adam




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