I see. Yes, nautilus-sendto won't solve this problem, nor will
Contractor as far as I understand it.
Internally we've discussed some approaches to opening up Shotwell to
other applications. Some ideas we've bounced around:
* A command-line interface, as Norbert suggested.
* A more generic plugin model. Our current plugin interfaces are
geared toward specific tasks, like pushing photos to a web service.
* shotwelld, a Shotwell D-bus daemon.
* libshotwell, a Shotwell library for interacting with the database.
Of all of these, I would say that the CLI is probably the easiest. For
ease of development, I would suggest the shotwell binary itself double
as the CLI. If Shotwell is not executing, it will perform the
operation and exit. If Shotwell is already running, the CLI will hand
the operation off to the existing process and exit. This ensures
database coherency.
Finally, unrelated question - what is the current status wrt to
shotwell and Pantheon? I am very uncertain where to invest time
and patches, as there was the announcement that Panthenon will
be the successor of shotwell, but it somehow never took of.
Pantheon Photos does *not* supersede Shotwell. I readily admit Photos
has more development hands on it, but Shotwell is not dead. Shotwell
continues to be a photo manager designed for the GNOME Desktop.
I would love it if the community would step up and provide more patches
and help triage bugs. As long as there's community interest, Shotwell
will continue to grow.
-- Jim
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Brian Masney <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey Jim,
One of the main reasons that I am reading from the Shotwell
database is that I need the event names and comments. I don't see
where
Shotwell currently exports that information. I would like to stop
reading directly from Shotwell's database.
I attached a sample page from one of my generated PDFs (assuming
small attachments work to the list). The large text in the boxes is
the event name. The date range is automatically added based on the
date(s) of the photos in that event. The blurred text is the event
comment. A large number of my events have comments associated with
them
so a lot of my pages turn out like this one.
Brian
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Jim Nelson wrote:
Brian, this looks exciting and very promising. We always warn
against other applications reading directly from the database, and
as your notes indicate, you're using the unaltered versions of the
photos in your application. There might be a better way to do this.
If you made your app compatible with nautilus-sendto, Shotwell's
File -> Send To... operation will export all the selected photos
(with full transformations) and execute your app. That might make
things easier for you.
There's also some work being done to make elementary's Contractor
work with Geary. If Shotwell supported Contractor, that would be
another way for Shotwell to export its photos to your application.
-- Jim
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Norbert Preining
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Brian,
>
>thanks for that, it looks very interesting. I will look into it and
>comment.
>
>Norbert
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