Matthew,
thanks for your comments. Sadly, interaction with external RAW editors
is an area of weakness for Shotwell at this time, and I don't know of
any way to improve your workflow with Shotwell and Bibble today. If you
could convince Bibble to write out a JPEG every time you saved then you
could import that into Shotwell (either manually or via auto-import),
but it currently would appear as a separate image.
We'd like to improve this interaction so that with popular RAW editors
you'll be able to save and have your changes show up in Shotwell
automatically, though I think we might need to special case various RAW
editors because I'm not aware of any standard way to make this work for
all such programs (though I'd like to investigate this more). We have a
ticket tracking this here:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3061
In the longer term, we'd like to add more advanced RAW capabilities to
Shotwell so you won't even need to use an external RAW editor at all.
:) But that probably won't happen for a while.
adam
On 02/27/2011 03:36 PM, Matthew S. Harris wrote:
Maybe I'm looking to better learn how to use the tools I have, or
maybe I'm making a Shotwell feature request. I'm not sure.
I'm trying to use Shotwell with Bibble. I love Shotwell's speed for
navigating my photos. I can tell that a lot of work went into
optimizing the checkerboard display. I'm willing to wait for
hierarchical tags and other promising features. But Shotwell is not a
sophisticated editor. I could be perfectly happy with it managing my
photos if it interacted well with external editors.
I don't know how other raw editors work, but to "edit" a file with
Bibble, Bibble just writes an .xmp file that sits next to the raw
file. There's no JPEG involved at all. I would love it if after
editing a file externally, Shotwell could recognize the updated .xmp
file and call Bibble to rerender the thumbnail and mimic.
I don't know how other raw editors do it, so I hope I'm not asking for
a lot of special case logic for Bibble. Maybe there's a way to do it
with plugins.
Since I have a paid copy of Bibble, I'm willing to do tests for you if
necessary.
Matthew
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