[Shotwell] Monitoring the filesystem for photos and automatically adding them to Shotwell.

[Adam Dingle]

On 06/13/2010 01:59 PM, arph at gmx.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i read the upcoming features for shotwell. one thing i am really
> interested in is the monitoring.
> There is no further description of what is meant by monitoring so i'd
> like to know if this is the same like for example amarok monitors the
> local library.
> does that mean shotwell will monitor folders and if files are
> added/removed then it will update its database automatically?
>    

Yes.  Our ticket for this feature is at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/374 
, by the way.

> when will this feature be implemented? next 0.6?
>    

Monitoring is not yet implemented and will not be in the 0.6 release 
later this month, but is a relatively high priority for 0.7 which we're 
planning to release later this summer, probably in August.

adam