shotwell

Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer. It has been installed on the Alpine Linux to complement the lightweight nature of swaywm.

The following commands set the Import Directory and ensures that it doesn't try to write metadata back to your synced files in syncthing..

prabu@homepc2 ~ [1]> gsettings list-recursively | grep -i shotwell
gsettings set org.gnome.shotwell.preferences.files:/org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/ import-dir "/data/photos"
gsettings set org.gnome.shotwell.preferences.files:/org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/ commit-metadata false

Verify the Settings

gsettings get org.gnome.shotwell.preferences.files:/org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/ import-dir

Since gsettings can be picky with relocatable schemas on Alpine/Sway, you can use the lower-level dconf tool directly, which doesn't care about schemas:

Set directory

dconf write /org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/import-dir "'/data/photos'"

Check it

dconf read /org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/import-dir