Folders to the side
A little while back, Mike Gemünde (tigger) wrote one of the nice features that will be present in the upcoming F-Spot release (really soon!): the folder bar. What is this? It’s a new sidebar page that shows the folders in which your photos are located and allows you to browse them by folder.
Folders in the sidebar
While we still believe that you shouldn’t be bothered with files and directories in F-Spot (and focus on photos), it’s impossible to hide this completely: laptop users can’t store all their photos on the internal disk and often need an external hard disk. And some users are really fond of their directory structure. We’re not trying to impose anything and this is a first step to give the users the freedom they want: browsing by directory. This is in git right now and will be present in the upcoming release.
Future things we should support can include things like support for external USB hard-disks. Want to see that happening? Come over and have a chat, we’re always looking for extra developers and user interface designers.
Related
- A tale about design (July 17, 2009)
- F-Spot: Alive and kicking! (June 10, 2009)
- GSoC 2009 (April 20, 2009)
- F-Spot 0.5.0 (September 19, 2008)
- F-Spot Sidebar Editors + Histogram (August 12, 2008)