GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 388826
Password protect Hidden images
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:03:12 UTC
It would be great if a password could be assigned to the Hidden tag, requiring that the password be entered before you can search for images tagged 'Hidden'. Someone could still access the images from the command line, but at least not easily through the GUI by double-clicking 'Hidden' unless they know the password.
already reported here (bug #346674), but it was closed a few month ago...
The suggested workaround in the other closed bug is to hide the hidden tag (ie, create a tag, then put the hidden tag under that other tag). I suppose that's better than nothing, but password protecting when viewing images tagged hidden is still far preferable to me. Yes, it's still possible to view the "hidden" images by directly browsing images with tools like Nautilus, but that's much more work in my collection of 50,000+ images with only a handful of "hidden" ones, and not something I'm concerned about. As things stand all someone needs to do is double-click the hidden tag, and it finds the handful of "hidden" photos for them.
I would go one step further: implementing the ability to use more than one "albums" (would be nice for example to mount CDs as a second "album") and allow to store those photos either encrypted or unencrypted. @Stephane: The "small" solution (password-protecting just the "hidden" gallery) sounds like something that would make a very nice little plugin. Will we have the ability to write something like this as a plugin?
Unless you encrypt the file and only have that version stored, then this feature would just be snake-oil.
(In reply to comment #4) > Unless you encrypt the file and only have that version stored, then this > feature would just be snake-oil. > Most users won't need that high level of security. For hiding naughty pictures from guest users for example, a simple password is more than enough and will keep 99.9% of them away.
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