Re: change in storage directory: a bug?

[David Stahl <othernerd gmail com>]

I just noticed something and I'm not sure if it's related:

I'm also using Ubuntu Feisty. In the previous version of F-Spot 
(whichever one came with Edgy Eft) I was accustomed to dragging an image 
to F-Spot and F-Spot would copy it into ~/Photos/... and finish the import.

With the new version, that no longer seems to happen. When I drag a 
photo it is imported and left to stay where it was (it is not copied to 
~/Photos). Was that behavior changed or do I have a bad setting somewhere?

-D

Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> Don't worry it's all ok. I was just reporting for sake of
> bug hunting and F-Spot improvement. The issue is
> definitely reasonable after your explanation.
>
> Thank you very much for the wonderful F-Spot!
>
> Emanuele
>
> Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> > Hi Emanuele,
> >
> > First, it's totally ok to have multiple base directories, don't worry
> > with that.
> >
> > And about the change, I'd say it's a necessary pain... At a moment in
> > time, we had to start doing that thing right (I mean create it once and
> > keep that location in the preferences). Before that, we had no way of
> > telling what was the default import folder, so no way to warn that it
> > changed...
> >
> > sorry about that
> >
> > s
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:30 +0200, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> >   
> > > I upgraded to f-spot 0.3.5 (provided by ubuntu feisty fawn) from 0.2.?
> > > (the one in edgy eft) but at the first import the new pictures were put in
> > > ~/Foto/ directory and not in ~/Photos/ where I have all my archive. Note
> > > that my Linux installation is in Italian but before the upgrade F-spot never
> > > changed directory Photos->Foto . I solved by removing all the new pictures,
> > > then going to preferences and setting again ~/Photos/ as default. Note that
> > > there was no warning about this and it's not trivial for users to catch it
> > > (I noticed the changed during a backup...).
> > >
> > > Is it expeceted that recent versions of F-Spot decides to change the default
> > > storage directory to something locale-dependent (without notifying)?
> > >
> > > Note that F-Spot 0.3.5 behaved correctly showing both pictures coming from
> > > ~/Photos/ and from ~/Foto/ all together. But I believe that this mixed
> > > stated
> > > is something to avoid. Or not?
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Emanuele
> > >
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