[Pkg-shotwell-maint] Bug#651206: Wishlist: browse images without importing (direct folder browsing)

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Package: shotwell
Version: 0.6.1-1+b2
Severity: normal


Dear Sir, 

I do not see the use to use shotwell if it does have to import all the time the pictures. 

Sometimes I just want to view some photos without importing them. And then maybe I want to quickly browse to another folder to view some photos from there. So there should be a browsing mode, where I can switch fast and easy between my folders on the drive. Thumbnails should be created on the fly, if I select a folder in this mode.

I am really waiting for this feature, because there are a lot of photos, which one don't want to import. For example you want to browse some picture folders on USB stick from friends. 

I hope that you can release soon for DEBIAN STABLE or DEBIAN BACKPORT to STABLE the newer version with this feature.


Shotwell is light, and looks very great.

Please also allow 

    [ -d myfolder ]  && shotwell myfolder 

to work and browse folders.

thank you

yours sincerely

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages shotwell depends on:
ii  dbus-x11           1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.30.0-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.8.10-6              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexif12          0.6.19-1              library to parse EXIF files
ii  libexiv2-9         0.20-2                EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation li
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.2-2.1+squeeze2    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.5-8             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.28.1-6              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgee2            0.5.2-1               GObject based collection library
ii  libgexiv2-0        0.1.0-1+b1            GObject-based wrapper around the E
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.2-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgphoto2-2       2.4.6-3               gphoto2 digital camera library
ii  libgphoto2-port0   2.4.6-3               gphoto2 digital camera port librar
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgudev-1.0-0     164-3                 GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-1+squeeze2     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-common    2.26.3-1              SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsoup2.4-1       2.30.2-1              an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsqlite3-0       3.7.3-1               SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.5-8               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libunique-1.0-0    1.1.6-1.1             Library for writing single instanc
ii  libusb-0.1-4       2:0.1.12-16           userspace USB programming library
ii  libwebkit-1.0-2    1.2.7-0+squeeze1      Web content engine library for Gtk
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library

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