[Shotwell] Renaming Events

[Adam Dingle]

On 09/29/2011 12:03 PM, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> On flickr there a tag format convention for a group that I upload 
> photos. The date is formatted in a common way and anyone who copies 
> photos to the group uses the same format, making it easy for visitors 
> to see the event by particular day.
>
> In f-spot I used an Events tag with the dates inside; e.g. 
> 24-September-2011. In shotwell there is the automatic event generation 
> which is pretty nifty, and allows renaming. So I can rename Sat, 24 
> Sep, 2011 -> 24-September-2011. Unfortunately, unless I'm mistaken, 
> this data must be held in the database, and not written as a tag to 
> the file itself.

That's correct.

> So when it's uploaded to flickr the event does not appear 
> automatically as a tag. I'm assuming this is the same whether photos 
> are 'published' or exported and manually uploaded.
>
> Would it be feasible to allow the Event name to be written as part of 
> the exif data?

Yes, this is under consideration:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3567

adam