On 09/01/2010 04:02 PM, e.m.fields wrote: > Hi. Ubuntu user, I've been running around trying to nail down which of the > photomanager applications can suit my needs, between f-spot and digikam. > Checking out shotwell now, as it's moving to standard in 10.10 "Maverick" > release. Looks good. >
Hello! > Main feature requests that I've found has (too late) been added in F-spot is > the much-needed XCF support, as well as decent versioning system for images, > and file-folder monitoring. I would like to know if these exist in > shotwell, or if plans to do so are in near-future. > > 1. XCF support > XCF is the native GIMP image editor image format, necessary for users who > rely heavily on this standard linux application. > i . Make sure that shotwell is able to index and view XCF files. > ii. Make an edit in gimp, export as JPEG/PNG and have this edit added to > shotwell > iii. Open in GIMP for an edit, and save as XCF, and have this edit added to > shotwell. > Shotwell has no support for XCF today. Regarding your question (ii): Shotwell can open a photo in an external editor, and if you open a JPEG photo in GIMP from within Shotwell and save your changes in JPEG format, Shotwell will notice the change and update its thumbnails. (If you open the photo from GIMP *outside* Shotwell and save, then Shotwell 0.7 will not notice the change, but the trunk build will since we've implemented this recently.) I've just added a ticket for us to support XCF format (and/or its possible successor, OpenRaster): http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2509 . This is probably not near the top of our priority list for the next couple of releases, but patches are gladly accepted! :) > 2. Versioning > F-spot has a great versioning system, and digikam has moved in this > direction as well. Multiple versions of one image can be "stacked" on top > of the original, and user can select between versions, as well as designate > new images as versions of another. > i. Does versioning exist in shotwell? > > ii. Can other files be added and linked as a version of the same image? > Shotwell's versioning system today is primitive. Each photo essentially has two versions: the original and the edited version (which incorporates both external edits and edits performed within Shotwell). You can view the original version of any photo by pressing the Shift key within Shotwell, and the Revert to Original command reverts back to the original version. We've thought about more complex versioning schemes and are potentially open to those, though it's very important to us to keep the user experience simple, so we've made no decisions about this. See http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2474 . > 3. Filesystem folder monitoring > A big feature request, and I think people would really agree with me here > after experiencing it - > Monitoring of folders, aka "Watching folders for new images". > use case: I add an image to a folder designated as a "watched folder" in > shotwell, and shotwell automatically recognizes and imports this image on > next startup. HUGELY important if you're going to be shifting around your > image files in any other way, which is one of my biggest gripes with > F-Spot. > i. Does it exist for shotwell? > > ii. Are there any plans for adding this in the future? > Folder monitoring is not in 0.7, but we've just implemented this in the trunk, so it will be in 0.8. Note that we auto-import from the library directory only. I hope that in a future release we'll support multiple watched folders. If you want to try this in the trunk, you need to specify --auto-import on the command line when you run Shotwell (this option will go away soon). See http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2478 . cheers adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
