On 12/19/05, Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 09:51 +0100, Jens Ansorg wrote: > > Bengt Thuree wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Just played abit with Picasa2, and must admit that I am impressed with the > > > simple Effects, Tuning and Basic Fixes it has. > > > What is the future plan for F-Spot in this area? > > > > > There is gimp for that and much more. > > Very true... especially for the "much more" part > > > > I'd prefer f-spot to become a great image catalog/database first before > > implementing those editing cpabilities. > > I agree, that is the first priority. But the extra small things would be > nice to have I think. A lot of users do not know how to use Gimp, but > they will feel perfectly happy with F-Spot, if they can do some minor > special effects. No thoughts of competing with Gimp, but rather > implementing some easy to use/implement filters. >
One other approach would be to simply reuse the Gimp. You can start up the Gimp in batch mode, and send it commands via the built-in scheme interpreter (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/). If this interface is a little too clunky, it should be straight-forward to write up some helper scripts that would perform the necessary operations. The benefit is that the F-Spot project doesn't have to worry about image manipulation, and can leverage the library of script-fu scripts written for the Gimp, but the downside is that the user would have to have the Gimp installed in order to use the functionality. Anthony W. Juckel _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
