On 14/06/10 16:45, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 23:19 +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> Hi, >> >> AFAIR, this is my first post to the list, so I'd like to say hello. >> >> Among other things, the goals [1] say something like this: >> >> [1] http://f-spot.org/Goals >> >> "These and more advanced users are encouraged by F-Spot to grow their >> skills, to the point where they integrate more specialized photo >> manipulation software into their F-Spot workflow." >> >> May I ask for a bit of clarification of this sentence? >> >> Does it mean integrated (internally, tightly, directly) RAW workflow >> is not considered as one of F-Spot goals? >> Does it mean there is no place for RAW processing algorithms and tools >> in F-Spot, thus F-Spot will by design delegate such functionality to >> external tools? >> >> I have used digiKam for long time. I like its feature richness, >> though I suffer when I have to use user-unfriendly and bloated UI of >> digiKam. Thus, I rather "Open in UFRaw" from digiKam than hit digiKam's >> F4 to edit in the built-in tools. >> >> However, I like the idea of built-in RAW processors very much, >> especially if well integrated with photo organiser features. >> The integration point is quite important here. >> F-Spot looks like a great potential alternative to digiKam - clean, >> user-friendly and pleasant to use. >> >> Does it fit to the idea of F-Spot at all? > > Yes, we want this, but admittedly, it's a hard target so it will take > some time. A nice and powerful integrated RAW workflow is a key part of > working with photos, so we should do it too. But it needs to be > absolutely smooth and clean, not the creepy unusable things RAW > processors usually turn into.
Yes. Understood and agreed. > We also want to seamlessly integrate with the gimp, once it supports > non-destructive editing. That's the more specialized software in the > vision statement :-) Sounds very good. I'm thinking about finding a way to employ/integrate RawTherapee with F-Spot.. I'll monitor this subject here and share comments in case I have anything to say :-) Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
