Hi all, I'm not sure this is the right place for this, but I could find a better place for it.
The only thing keeping me from converting my family PC from Windows to Ubuntu is Picasa (I know it runs in Wine, but I like native apps). My wife uses the collage feature of Picasa a lot. Shotwell is a really nice photo manager but it seems to be missing this particular functionality. It just so happens I want to get my hands dirty in development on Linux _and_ now I have an itch to scratch (collage functionality in Shotwell). So my questions are: 1. Is there already collage functionality underway? (can't find it in the feature enhancement requests) 2. If 1=no, is it OK if I take this on me? 3. If 2=yes, is it OK that it will take some time because I must get my hands dirty with vala and gobject. As for the design, i'm thinking along these lines: 1. Create a new collage from menu 2. As an alternative, select foto's and in the RMB menu you can create a new collage with the selected photo's. 3. A new window appears with the selected photo's (or empty when started from menu) 4. You can drag-n-drop photo's from ShotWell main interface into the collage window. 5. Within collage window ou have this functionality: 5a. Arrage photo's (layer management (move up/down, send up/down)) 5b. Rotate/grow/shrink 5c. Add nice borders to photo's 5d. Add tekst in typical scrapbook style to canvas 5e. Choose backgrounds (solif, photo, any grahpics file) 5f. Auto arrange photo's according to different scheme's. 6. One can save the collage as a new photo. Within Shotwell these collage photo's can be tagged or inserted into an event folder. Could be there is plugin functionality in the works. Then this would also fit in such a framework. Please let me know is it's OK to go forward with this (so I have something to do during the winter :-) ) I will then add this as an enhancement request. Thank you, Fred _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
