Jorge, On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Jorge Ortega <[email protected]>wrote:
> First of all merry Christmas to all of you!! > Happy holidays and New Year to you as well. :) > Second: very sincere congratulations for a very significant release. From > today I can start using Shotwell as my photo manager thanks to the ability > to save tags to the files and the auto-update option and in the hope that > few things I still need will eventually come. . Not only that but I also > have a video manager!! Farewell to Picasa.... > Great! :) > > I hope you don't mind if I point out what I think the program still needs: > > 1-Search feature: I know this is on the way so thanks in advance for that. > This is perhaps the single most important feature still missing. I don't > know if there is agreement on this but in my view you should be able to > search at least tags, file names and folder names. Very definitely tags. > Agreed: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/80 http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1587 > > 2-I believe this has also been requested but I don't know what the plans > are: some kind of tags management. When you've got hundreds of different > tags (for many thousands of images) to scroll up and down the list is not > an > option any more. A hierarchical view would be good: > nature>forest>trees>pine > trees... > Right: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401 > > 3-Some kind of separation between raw files and jpegs. As it is now, > everything is in the same pot which is very inconvenient. Possible answers > to this: multiple libraries or better still multiple profiles. The bottom > line is I need to know when I'm between originals and edited files. > As we recently discussed here, we'd like Shotwell to be able to display RAW and JPEG pairs as a single photo, which should make this easier: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1772 > > 4-RAW to DNG conversion. Is this something really polemic in Linux? Just > now > this is the one thing that sends me back to Windows as far as > photo management. Everything else I can just manage. > A reasonable idea. I've ticketed this here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3018 > > 5-Multiple views: folder view (tree/alphabetical/date view). I think this > is > on the way. > Right: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594 http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2747 > > 6- I can't use Shotwell to import my files from devices until it let me > choose the name of the folders and where to put them. > Yes - we'd like to improve this: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597 http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1942 http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2170 > > 7- Better editing tools. I know shotwell is not (and will not be) > replacement for Gimp. But really, for good/quick tone/color/contrast/light > control all is needed is one tool: levels or curves with the ability to > apply to different color channels. And of course for the less inclined to > investigate the tool an auto-level setting. > I've added a new ticket for adjusting color channels independently: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3019 As you probably know Shotwell already has an auto-enhance feature (which applies to all channels at once). > > As I said, thanks again for this timely update. It is just so good when you > can do in your chosen desktop what you need to do without having to search > for increasingly exotic/inconvenient options: kde, wine, proprietary > software and in the en Windows. > Glad you like it. :) I hope we'll be able to implement some of these features in the next few releases. For more information about our future plans, see the Development section on the Shotwell wiki: http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
