Comment 4 for bug 127315

I think part of the problem comes from the fact that F-Spot organizes photos in the ~/Photos directory. It's not really a user directory, as users can't move photos around inside this directory without breaking F-Spot's database. Whereas the ~/Pictures directory is the place where users should put there pictures, and be free to move/remove them at will without breaking anything.

So, I think that:
 - whether F-Spot should use a hidden folder to store the photos it imports (to avoid users from playing with the files, and ending up breaking F-Spot's database). For example, it could be ~/.f-spot/photos.
 - or F-Spot should behave the same way Rhythmbox does, which means that it should be able to automatically import any new photo copied into the ~/Pictures folder, remove pictures from its database that have been removed from ~/Pictures, and automatically copy every file it imports into the ~/Pictures folder. This way, the ~/Pictures folders would be a user-manageable folder and would still work with F-Spot.