Bob, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Bob Giles <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lech & List! > > This is my first post to the list. Please be gentle with me! I apologise if > what follows sounds a little like a rant! > > I have raised this issue recently and received a speedy response from Adam > along the lines of what has been said in this thread. > > However, I was referred to : > > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/601 > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1622 > > along with the comment that the support of TIFF files was being actively > considered. > > On checking the above tickets I found that the priority in both cases has > been changed from 'High' to 'Medium'. I find this disconcerting to say the > least. > The high priority in our database is reserved for those tickets which are still under active consideration for the upcoming release (at the moment that's Shotwell 0.8). As I mentioned in my previous email, TIFF will not make 0.8 at this point. The page http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell lists our top candidate tickets for future releases in the section "Shotwell 0.9 and beyond". TIFF is one of those top candidates. > > As an aside, I am aware that a lot of effort is clearly being put into > video formats which is highly commendable given that video capability is > included in most modern digital still cameras. My current camera of choice > is a Panasonic G2 which shoots HD video. Realistically, it only gets used > for video on rare occasions. If I want to shoot video, I use a dedicated > video camera. > > Shotwell is described as 'An open source photo manager for GNOME', NOT a > video editor etc... > > Surely, it would be more advantageous to concentrate on the primary stated > objective before going off on a tangent? After all, TIFF images are not > entirely unique, or are they? I have several thousand such images shot on a > Minolta Dimage 7. > Yes, TIFF is certainly a common image format. We appreciate your feedback on how important it is to you, and hope to implement it in Shotwell soon. adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
