---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter DO Smith <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [Shotwell] XCF / Versioning support? To: Adam Dingle <[email protected]>
Sorry, this should have gone to the mailing list Adam, re the versioning issue you might want to take a look at NILFS, a continuous snapshotting system developed by NEC. It is now included in the kernel. I have used it, with some success, as the basis for a versioning system for documentation in the pharmaceutical industry. regards, Peter On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
