[Shotwell] Multi-threading Publish Photos

[Adam Dingle]

On 07/22/2010 08:51 AM, Tor Løvskogen Bollingmo wrote:
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>> On 07/22/2010 05:52 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>        
> GUI wise I think it would be great to have temporarily process bar at the top of the image view while the publishing is taking place.

Either that, or we could add a new sidebar item 'Publishing...', just 
like the existing item 'Importing...'.  It would be nice if both these 
items displayed progress bars (see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/300 ).

> Would it be necessary to lock the records? Could store a copy temporarily for publishing. Then people wouldn't have to wait for deleting the records after hitting publish (if they want to).
>    

Right.  Either locking the records or creating a temporary copy for 
publishing seem reasonable to me.

adam