shotwell

Similarly, images deleted from a linked directory should automatically disappear from the library.

As part of directory monitoring, we should also notice images which have been changed externally and update their thumbnails in Shotwell.

It is also desirable to follow symlinks and watch for changes in those directories too. (Not sure if this requires any additional code to handle)

Robert,

that's a reasonable suggestion. I think we will follow symbolic links (which will require a little bit of additional code, actually).

I've committed a patch to auto-import (add) photos that are added to the library directory.

This ticket is now a meta-ticket for these other remaining tasks: #2307,#2306, #2305, #2303, #2302, #2301, #2300

I'm breaking this ticket into two. This ticket represents monitoring for changes on the fly, but no necessarily adding newly discovered files. A separate ticket will represent adding new files discovered during scanning (whether via monitoring or a startup scan).

As part of real-time monitoring, we need to do the following:

• detect when external drives are mounted/unmounted

• detect when the library directory itself has been renamed or deleted

• update the monitoring state when the user changes the path of the library directory