[Shotwell] Import questions

[Jon Hamkins]

Hi, I'm a long time RH and Fedora user, and first-time shotwell user. 
First, let me offer congratulations to the shotwell development team on 
a great looking photo organizer -- this will be a really nice tool for 
me, once I figure out a few things.

1. In importing from a camera card, shotwell ignored the video files on 
the camera (telling me so -- good).  This is understandable for a photo 
organizer, but it does make shotwell not such a great default tool for 
how I operate.  I only attach a camera card when I want to dump all data 
and erase the card.  How do others handle this issue of video files not 
getting copied to the computer?  I was thinking of reverting to gthumb 
as the default application when a camera card is attached to the 
computer (which copies both images and videos), and then importing the 
new hard-drive directory into shotwell to take advantage of shotwell's 
superior photo organization capabilities.

2.  Incidentally, when I connected a camera and let shotwell import the 
pictures, it seems to have created the directory ~/2010 and put the 
pictures there.  Is this the expected behavior when no ~/Pictures/ 
directory is present?  This is, well, weird.  Shouldn't there be an 
option to specify where to copy the images?

3.  Starting over (deleting ~/.shotwell, and creating ~/Pictures), I 
imported a directory of pictures already on my hard drive into shotwell, 
keeping the checkbox checked for copying files to my "photo library". 
But, if I move/rename the original directory of images, shotwell 
complains that they are missing, and the extended information indicates 
that shotwell is looking for the images in their original location.  So, 
it only seems to have *linked* to the pictures, not copied them to 
~/Pictures (which remained empty).  In fact, the import seems to behave 
the same way whether or not I check the copy checkbox.

Incidentally, I've read through the shotwell tickets, and I agree with 
Adam's comment on #1602, that by default, it is the right thing to link 
images already on the hard drive and copy images on a removable drive. 
Maybe I'll stick to that approach, and be careful never move/rename 
anything in that directory structure.

      ----Jon