New functionality idea

Summary:

Daemon mode - (Useful to me, at least)

New functionality idea

jferfre 16 Oct 2009 10:27

Hi everyone.

I'd like to explain my idea about what I miss in Phatch, but before I'd like to thank to everyone that contribute this great tool.

I mainly use Phatch to make a "copycat" version of /images folder, into a /light_images folder. Why? I use it to quickly see my photos from other computers in my network. You know, WiFi, Disk, 10Mpix photos,…everything counts to slow every picture load.

So that, from my 50% photos folder, I can quickly run F-Spot, Picasa or whatever visor very well.

I'd like Phatch to "detect" that new photos have been loaded into my /images folder, and automatically resize and copy them to /light_folder.

Would be possible? Useful? It least, YES to me.

Thanks
Regards,
^_Pepe_^

Re: New functionality idea

stani 19 Oct 2009 15:13

It looks like you want:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/phatch/+spec/watched-folder

Please subscribe to the blueprint. The more subscribers, the more we will take it in consideration.

Some questions:
- You don't want the images deleted from the images folder right?
- Does your images folder has subfolders?
- What condition should be used? filename, modification time, …