[KPhotoAlbum] Patch to ignore symlinks when reading files

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

I agree with Risto here.
I don't use RAW images, so I'm afraid I'm not the one to implement this. 
Anyone who would like to take this upon them?

First step would of course to discuss it here on the list.

Cheers

On Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:26:01 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > Thanks for clarifying. I'm still not sold on that idea, though, maybe
> > > because I use symlinks for making images *available* in the first
> > > place.
> > 
> > I generally like to avoid renaming files; it makes it less clear
> > what's going on.
> > 
> > It's not the most critical change, and maybe it's just my quirky way
> > of doing things.
> 
> I'm not saying that one of you is right or wrong but to me this looks like
> another bump on the various ways people figure out to manage working with
> multiple copies of same file / RAW files / panorama files / ... KPA
> supports ignoring RAW files if they're named correctly, and supports
> regexps. I'm not using either as they don't suit me so I end up having
> multiple copies of same files in my directory tree (as I don't like to
> have my processed photos in the same dir with the original and blah blah).
> 
> It'd be great if workflows for RAW processing, panoramas, (what else?) etc
> etc would be fully thinked through so that KPA would provide the user a
> simple, unified workflow regarding archiving photos, instead of making
> people write their own hacks and sending patches to make KPA suit their
> needs.
> 
> (Yes, KPA is a great tool to tag but relating to issues like these doesn't
> work that well in my eyes)
> 
> R

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