Een tijdje geleden schreef Mike Gemünde (tigger) een coole feature die in de volgende F-Spot release (binnenkort!) aanwezig zal zijn: de folder bar. Dit is een sidebar pagina die de verschillende mappen toont waarin je foto's opgeslagen zijn en laat je toe om ze op deze manier te verkennen.

We zijn nog steeds van mening dat je je in F-Spot niet bezig moet houden met bestanden en mappen (en eerder moet concentreren op foto's), maar het is onmogelijk om dit volledig te verbergen: laptop gebruikers kunnen niet al hun bestanden op de interne harde schijf opslaan en gebruiken vaak een externe harde schijf. En sommige gebruikers zijn zeer gehecht aan hun mappenstructuur. Aangezien we niets willen opleggen aan onze gebruikers is dit de eerste stap om deze gebruikers de vrijheid te geven die ze willen: foto's verkennen op basis van mappen. Dit is nu reeds beschikbaar in git en zal aanwezig zijn in de volgende release.

In de toekomst kan je zaken verwachten als ondersteuning voor externe USB harde schijven. Wil je dit zien gebeuren? Kom dan gerust eens met ons praten, we zijn altijd op zoek naar extra ontwikkelaars en user interface designers.

Thanks for this killer feature, guys!

I know a lot of people are very picky about the structure and naming of their files, maybe lifting the code from Banshee that to let people overload the naming with a boo script would make them happy.

it is the one thing that is holding me back in using f-spot... the fact that f-spot overrules my folder structure and completely makes its own tree structure according to the date of the pics. Please, please let me CHOOSE whether I want this or not. Let me CHOOSE for my self if I want to be bothered with files and directories. I think I can manage that. I can't manage the other way around... You can let the default way be what you like, but please give me an option to keep and use my own folder structure!!

Otherwise I will (have to) stick with digikam. Which is fine, but f-spot is better integrated in a gnome environemnt.

Greetz,
deech

A bit too lazy right now to go beyond here to do it, but I want to give my +1 for supporting external hard drives. It's something I have wanted for a while :)

As far as how that should work, I think F-Spot should store thumbnails for all images locally, but support moving a photo to a backup disk, in the process removing it from the local disk. (Could be neatly referred to as "archiving"). In that process, the user could easily describe the disk he is sticking the stuff on (great for burning dvds). The photo would be easily available from the browsing view, then when the user tries to open it a message could appear asking to insert the disk it is known to be on.

However it's done, though, I will seek out and hug the person who implements that feature.

Oh, support for external drives would be great, especialy if it would also work for dvd's. I mean you could store just thumbnails on the main drive and when the user wants to open it display something like "please insert volume foo" where foo would either be the volume label or a label chosen by the user...

I agree with Deech. I like F-spot a lot but don't use it only because it moves my existing pictures out of their original folders. There is no need for that, my pictures are already well arranged per subject/vacation and I prefer it that way.

So I'm excited to experiment with this new feature!

Guys, you can place your pictures wherever you want on the filesystem, and import them WITHOUT copying to Photos folder, so leaving the directory structure as preferred.
Yes, it's almost a workaround, but until the new import dialog comes to life, it can be an option! ;)

hi,
i tried it, and i am really sorry to say, but it is a complete mess! All the pics are there, but the folder structure in the folder tab is a total chaos. It displays a treestructure that is not there, showing folders nested inside others that are nested inside others, etc, while they should be top level folders. Anyone else with the same experience??

@deech, likely to be fixed here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591295

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/f-spot/commit/?id=4ab23e5fa9ea8ad78fa777f00d704f884abda28e

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