GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 123533
Suggestion concerning picture comments.
Last modified: 2005-08-07 06:56:19 UTC
I would like to suggest a new gThumb preference that would allow picture comments be saved in a directory other than "$(HOME)/.gnome2/gthumb/comments". Specifically, I want to create CD's of my pictures with their comments. However, because the comments are in my home directory tree, I cannot create a cd with the comments, for anybody to view on any machine. I would suggest that an alternative location for comments could be "./.comments/", i.e. the ".comments" subdirectory of the directory containing the pictures.
Have made a couple of simple updates, and gthumb does what I want. Here are the diffs: $ diff typedefs.h typedefs.h.20031011 54d53 < #define LOCAL_COMMENTS_DIR ".gthumb_comments" [crlb@ajgq422zy568i libgthumb]$ diff comments.c comments.c.20031006 191,200c191 < < path = g_strconcat (directory, < "/", < LOCAL_COMMENTS_DIR, < "/", < filename, < COMMENT_EXT, < NULL); < < /* path = g_strconcat (g_get_home_dir(), --- > path = g_strconcat (g_get_home_dir(), 207c198 < NULL); */ --- > NULL); 255c246 < NULL); --- > NULL); It occurs to me that the thumbnails should also be cached in a local directory if you want to create CDs. What do you think?
I'd vote for such a feature, too. However, it may be not worth to add an extra preference: probably a better choice is to save in directory with figures by default, and if it is not possible (e.g., it is not writable), then save comments in .gthumb/comments. Changing severity to "enhancement".
comments are saved in the .comments subdir since version 2.6.0, closing as FIXED...