[Shotwell] Shotwell command line

[Adam Dingle]

On 06/25/2010 02:58 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote:
> I note from an earlier posting that Shotwell can invoke different
> photo libraries by using the following command
>
> shotwell -d ~/.library_name
>
> This seems to me to be a very powerful option and I wonder if you
> could not build this into the Shotwell gui, under, for example, the
> File menu entry?
>    

That's a reasonable suggestion.  I've added a ticket at 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2211 .

> The facility to have different libraries of photos would be very valuable to me.
>
> I also note that this is not described in the new documentation. I
> think it should be included.
>    

Good point.  I've just added it to the 0.6 documentation.

> There does seem to be a bug though.
> If I run
> shotwell -d library_name
> I get this error
> ** ERROR **: AppDirs.vala:39: Operation not supported
> aborting...
> Aborted
>
> It seems I must enter
> shotwell -d ~/library_name
>
> which seems unnecessarily restrictive
>
>    

True.  I've filed a bug at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2210 .

adam