[Shotwell] Tags enhancement

[Adam Dingle]

On 06/22/2010 09:49 AM, Svetoslav Trochev wrote:
>> We're planning to implement directory monitoring soon
>> (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/374).  Once we have that, Shotwell should
>> automatically notice when photos have gone away so I hope there
>> shouldn't be a need for a manual repair step.
>>
>>
>> adam
> Adam, are you planning to have this feature enabled/disabled per
> directory? This is the main reason why I started using Shotwell.
> Currently I can import (without local copy) my archived photos located
> on my NAS and I have them in the DB for search, but I am not connected
> to my NAS at all time. I would hate to see archived photos deleted
> from my DB at this moment. I read the ticket, but there is nothing
> about how it is going to work. Where I can read more about it?
>
> Thank you,
> Svetoslav
>    

Svetoslav,

we haven't yet designed this feature in detail so there's nothing more 
to read at this moment.  But we're going to start work on 0.7 soon, and 
directory monitoring is high on our list so we'll be thinking much more 
about this soon.  The use case you described is important.  I think 
we'll either need to (a) detect when a filesystem is offline, in which 
case we *won't* delete its files from the database even though they are 
inaccessible, and/or (b) allow the user to enable/disable monitoring per 
directory (like in Picasa, for example).  Still undecided.

adam