[Shotwell] Tags enhancement

[Peter DO Smith]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
> 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, this is an important issue. Twice my photos were deleted from
Picasa for this very reason.
I would suggest (a) above and (c) a switch to disable monitoring plus
(d) a refresh button to manually scan for folder changes.
Peter