Hi Jim, Thank you for youre positive feedback. I agree with all of youre points. Of course I will follow open source philosophy to release early and release often. The design I wrote down is the point on the horizon. I will start with the relatively simple things.
Thank you for creating the ticket. I will post further progress in this ticket. Fred On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure this is the right place for this, but I could find a better >> place for it. >> >> > The mailing list is a good place for these kinds of discussion. > > >> 1. Is there already collage functionality underway? (can't find it in the >> feature enhancement requests) >> > > No, but I've created a ticket for it: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2565 > > >> 2. If 1=no, is it OK if I take this on me? >> > > Absolutely! > > >> 3. If 2=yes, is it OK that it will take some time because I must get my >> hands dirty with vala and gobject. >> > > That's no problem. If we bump up the priority of this feature, we'll let > you know and ask if you want to share the work you've done to date with us. > > >> >> As for the design, i'm thinking along these lines: >> >> > I think your list is a good start, but it's a lot of things to do at once. > I would first suggest creating a simple implementation of a single collage > type. For example, on the page I linked to in the ticket ( > http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=227) they have some > fancy collages and a lot of options. The picture grid or contact sheet are > much simpler. It would probably be best to start there. > > The Yorba philosophy is incremental improvements rather than large changes > all dumped into trunk at once. Hence, we'd prefer to see something small > and simple than all the features implemented in a single patch. > > >> Could be there is plugin functionality in the works. Then this would also >> fit in such a framework. >> >> > We definitely want to adopt a plug-in scheme at some point. Until we've > got our bearings on this, let's have this first pass at the feature be > hardcoded in. > > > -- Jim > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
