On 03/15/2010 05:25 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:50 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: >> >> For me Shotwell fails the usefulness test very quickly as it has to >> "import" the photos, by copying them in the Pictures dir on my home. For >> me this is unworkable, as having tens of thousands of photos, summing >> hundreds of GB stored on external drives, I need to keep the files into >> place. >> > I haven't given it a shot either, but... I just cannot help but remind > you of mount --bind... But more seriously -- If you read the page more > throughout you'd know it actually does not need to copy the photos to > ~/Pictures: > > " If you hold down Ctrl+Shift while dragging photos in, Shotwell will > import the photos without copying them." I am sorry, I read the page extremely briefly I am swamped with a taks somewhat related to the topic: have a massive photo set (over 3500 images) made over the last week-end and try to put some sanity into it (so I *do* care about managing photos). > But indeed, at the very least on live spin, the default behaviour should > be to import the photos *without* copying them. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
