<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tim Zakharov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzakharov@gmail.com">tzakharov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:<br>
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> > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives<br>
> > an "alien" and feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the<br>
> > program is doing something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of space).<br>
><br>
> Seeing as that's optional, yes you did. I find the copying useful since<br>
> well...if it didn't copy them, it'd be like GThumb, pretending to organize my<br>
> camera (not actually changing the filesystem by the way, just pretending) and<br>
> not getting the images onto the computer. You'd have to manually copy all the<br>
> images from the camera to the hard drive, then run GThumb/F-Spot. In that<br>
> case, why are they set to start when a camera is plugged in or an SD card<br>
> inserted? They'd be rather useless for the "getting stuff of the camera"<br>
> usecase (the usecase implied by their autolaunching).<br>
><br>
</div>In my case, I keep all photos on a large external drive to conserve<br>
space in my home directory, and import only the thumbnails into f-spot,<br>
so I must remember to uncheck this box each time, or it copies over the<br>
full jpgs to home/tim/Photos. This would quickly wipe out my free<br>
space, and needlessly make a duplicate of each photo (I already keep<br>
backups on another system). So in my case, as with Vincenzo, it is a<br>
feature I don't like.</blockquote><div><br>I happen to quite like this feature, since I use it to copy pictures off my camera and onto disk while importing them into F-Spot, and I think that ought to be a fairly common use case. I would vote against removing this feature, however perhaps the default should be to have it unchecked. Someone should talk to upstream on that.<br>
<br>Evan<br></div></div>