Add the path of the file in the basic information pane
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Link to original bug (#719197)
Description
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-07-23 00:15:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 7271
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7271
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7271
Original author: Philippe Vigneau
Original description:
Hi
I think it would be an enhancement to add the path of the file in the basic information pane.
1/ for the moment there are no simple way to know the path of the file (the more simple is by the extended information)
2/ I think that the path of the file is as much important as the size or the timestamp of the photo
3/ There is no much imformation in the basic pane, so adding a new one, would not mess people
(I'm interested in developping this feature)
Phiilppe
Related issues:
- related to shotwell - Feature #3451 (closed): Suggestion: add a 'copy path to clipboard' option to the ... (Open)
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-07-26 17:41:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Jim Nelson 4 months ago
- Status changed from Open to Need Information
Adding the path to the Basic Information box would add a lot of text. I'm unconvinced that it trumps Date and Time, which are often important to people (not just me). You do realize you can leave the Extended Information window up while you're looking at your photos, right? (You don't have to close it to change photos is what I mean.)
Comment 2
Updated by Philippe Vigneau 4 months ago
Hi
for most of people, the path of the photo would just be : ~/Photos/2012/07/25. You are right that in some case this could be long. I think this information is really important especially :
1/ after an import when sometimes you don't really know what have happenned and where your photo is now located
2/ for photos which don't have timestamp
extended information as a floating window is not really confortable.
Philippe
Comment 3
Updated by Philippe Vigneau 4 months ago
this also could be a way for solving : #3451 (closed)
Comment 4
Updated by Jim Nelson 4 months ago
- Category set to ux
- Status changed from Need Information to Open
Ok, I'll leave this open. I'm wary of adding fields to Basic Information because it's pretty full as-is, but at the same time this is a basic piece of information. There might be a right way to do this: limit it to one line, using ellipses and tilde for home when necessary (although for people importing from external hard drives, that won't be of much help), and then a tooltip to show the entire path.
Even with all that, I'm not certain the full path belongs in Basic Information. There are other possibilities, such as under the photos themselves when in checkerboard mode.
Comment 5
Updated by Philippe Vigneau 4 months ago
Concerning the fields in the basic information page, I think that the size of the file is a basic information (not an extended) and the exposure is not a basic (but an extended)... but this is another question...
back to the path topic, adding the path on the checkerboard mode (as made for tags) would not be confortable : too much text.
for example if the name of the picture is quite long, the name is not wrapped (it's kept on one line) and you can see the beginning of the name followed by "..."
we may have the same behaviour for the path... If you are OK, I'll try to build a patch...
Comment 6
Updated by Joe Bylund 4 months ago
Jim, Philippe,
What about adding something along the lines of "copy path to clipboard" in the context menu? The most frequent reason I go looking for the path is to copy & paste somewhere else. Especially together with "show in file manager" (which still doesn't play well with file managers other than nautilus), I would think this is sufficient.
Though I think one of Jim's reservations is the context menus can already be quite large (15 items with 6 dividers). Maybe we should discuss how to simplify those as a separate issue?
-Joe
Comment 7
Updated by Philippe Vigneau 4 months ago
yes context menu is already quite long...
in my opinion, basic informations are :
1/ path of the file (interesting when there is no timestamp, for copying, etc...)
2/ name of the file
3/ date of the file
4/ height*length (interesting for cropping)
5/ size of the file (interesting for example for huge videos)
all the rest (exposure, etc...) may be interesting when you work in detail on a particular picture and should be in the extended windows. Personnally I never need one of these extended...
path should be somewhere, and the smarter way of having it is in the basic information.
Comment 8
Updated by Jim Nelson 4 months ago
Philippe Vigneau wrote:
all the rest (exposure, etc...) may be interesting when you work in detail on a particular picture and should be in the extended windows. Personnally I never need one of these extended...
Some people do find those details important. I feel like your proposal originates from a file manager view; you're asking for file-centric details. What Shotwell has today is photo-centric information, which makes sense for a photo manager. Also, photos may have human-readable titles. If so, Shotwell displays those, not the filename, in Basic Information.
One possibility here is that when in checkerboard mode you see more file- centric information in Basic Information, but when in single-photo mode, you see more photo-centric information.
I'd have to think about it more, but it's an avenue worth considering.
--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 22:00 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 7271 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7271
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