shotwell drag photo or video to pitivi does not work

[Vincent Gerris]

I noticed that dragging a photo from shotwell to pitivi does not work.
It does not work for a video either.
When using F-spot, dragging a photo works.
Since Shotwell and Pitivi are the default programs for what they do in 11.04, I think this is a bug from a user point of view.
Also, since it works with nautilus, it seems this is a shotwell issue.

Can this be fixed?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: shotwell 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 6 15:16:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

Vincent,

it's possible to drag and drop photos from Shotwell to Nautilus, but not to any other application. This is a known issue:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1563

[Vincent Gerris (vgerris)]

Dear Adam,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
Is there any ETA for an implementation?
One would expect this to work, also to command line, since all other apps I
use have it.
F-spot, which is replaced by shotwell also does it.

If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Kind regards,
Vincent

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Adam Dingle <email address hidden> wrote:

> Vincent,
>
> it's possible to drag and drop photos from Shotwell to Nautilus, but not
> to any other application. This is a known issue:
>
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1563
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821915
>
> Title:
> shotwell drag photo or video to pitivi does not work
>
> Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I noticed that dragging a photo from shotwell to pitivi does not work.
> It does not work for a video either.
> When using F-spot, dragging a photo works.
> Since Shotwell and Pitivi are the default programs for what they do in
> 11.04, I think this is a bug from a user point of view.
> Also, since it works with nautilus, it seems this is a shotwell issue.
>
> Can this be fixed?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: shotwell 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sat Aug 6 15:16:49 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386
> (20110427.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: shotwell
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/821915/+subscriptions
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[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

Vincent,

If we want this sort of drag and drop to work, Shotwell will need to keep an on-disk copy of each photo including all edits the user has made. Today, Shotwell only keeps the originals on disk, and applies the user's edits on the fly each time the user opens a photo. As a result, fixing this will be a large change to Shotwell. (See http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1798.) It certainly won't happen for the upcoming 0.11 release. Perhaps we'll be able to implement this for 0.12 or 0.13 depending on other priorities.