Shotwell: Possible to import JPEG's only?
 

I'm using Shotwell to view and browse my photos. After installing Linux Mint 13 i now have a newer version of Shotwell. This gives me a problem.
I take photos with a RAW + JPEG setting. This way i don't have to convert the raw files into jpeg's and i still have a raw file if i want to edit any photo. I create one folder for each date with a subfolder named "raw" where i put the raw files. I then import them with Shotwell with the "Import in Place" option. Previously with the older version the raw files was just ignored as Shotwell didn't have support for them, but with the newer version there is support for raw, and since the JPEG's and RAW's aren't in the same folder, Shotwell import both versions. If i put jpeg's and raw's in the same folder, Shotwell seems to import the raw ones.
Is there a way or workaround to make Shotwell import JPEG's only? I only use it for viewing and browsing and don't want it to import raw files.

From http://yorba.org/shotwell/help/other-raw.html you see how Shotwell handles them: it regards the accompanying (or embedded) JPEG files as an extension (or product) of RAW files. So from Shotwells point of view you could just shoot RAW and let it handle importing and conversion to JPEG. If that doesn't suit you for whatever reasons you could filter the file system you mount using FUSE filterFS and then "mask" for example your RAW files with a rule like "filterfs /media/camerastorage /mnt/shotwellimport --include=*.jpg".

I use a low-tech option. If your camera allows you to write to separate SD cards, mount the JPEG card via a reader rather than the camera itself.
Shotwell doesn't even see the RAW card when it is mounted for processing in gimp.

Sorry for late reply.. FilterFS sounds like a nice program with a lot of potential uses. How do i obtain it? It doesn't appear to be in repos and my knowledge when it comes to compile from source code is limited, to say the least. I usually use apt-get when installing something.

I did post the link. Usually tar balls come with files called README and INSTALL you could read. Try compiling it and if it doesn't work post the steps you took and the actual output or errors that produced.

Well, maybe i'm not thinking straight here, but i can't even figure out how to download the thing. On the FilterFS site you linked to there's a link under "Download" to http://sourceforge.net/projects/filterfs/files but there are no files to download. Clicked the "Code" tab, but that didn't help.

ROTFL, no, it's not you ;-p If you go to http://filterfs.sourceforge.net/ you'll find the instructions under the Download header:
You need to have GIT for that. Also ifthrows an error you need the FUSE and its development libraries before you can begin compiling FUSE FilterFS. Ifalso throws an error you need to install a compiler, gcc, and its dependencies.

Maybe now the initial suggestion to just shoot RAW format and let Shotwell handle importing and conversion to JPEG doesn't seem so bad after all ;-p

Didn't understand half of that, but sounded complicated:-) A pity, since it's a great idea.
Therefore thought it would be fairly straightforward even if it had to be compiled from source. But there you go..

I rarely edit my photos, but still want a raw available for those really rare moments when i capture this great picture..
I want the cameras native jpeg since even if i use Canon's own software (the camera is a Canon EOS 40D) to convert a raw to jpeg, the cameras jpeg still seems to look better (less dead pixels, etc).

Maybe (hopefully) in a future release of Shotwell there'll be more settings, so you can choose to import jpeg (or raw) only.
Until then suggestions for alternative software, even Windows one's under Wine, is welcome.

Thanks very much for the help so far.