Hi all, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Jonas Bushart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > interesting ideas. THose sound good. I will add those ideas to the > bugtracker ticket: > http://redmine.yorba.org/**issues/3865<http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3865> > > Jonas > > Am 30.08.2011 21:21, schrieb Aurélien Naldi: > > Hi, >> >> I just updated to shotwell 0.11, it looks like a nice improvement over >> the previous version, which comes with a price: it increases user >> expectations :) >> > ...which is as it should be. :) > In case this is not the right place to discuss feature requests, I >> wanted to submit this to the bugtracker but never got the email to >> activate my account. >> >> My new pet peeve is the publishing dialog. As you may know, google >> increased the "free images" size limit for google plus users to 2048 >> pixels, and the dialog restricts me to either 1600 pixels or full >> size, preventing me from taking advantage of the new free storage. >> > >> After a quick look at the code, it seems easy to fix by adding a >> single line to the picasa export plugin. >> Actually, I did just this, and it works fine (the diff is too small to >> be of any interrest), but I would love a proper solution. Indeed, what >> if the size changes again. Or for some reason, a user want to use some >> intermediate step between the free storage limit and the original >> size? >> If I recall properly, f-spot has a widget to set a custom size along >> with some presets, but it feels wrong, what I would like is to keep >> only the presets, but to allow the user to add entries to it. >> Would it be possible to have a "+" button next to the preset selection >> combobox, that allows to add custom sizes? For the sake of simplicity, >> I think that a list of custom sizes should be managed by shotwell >> itself, each publishing plugin could then decide to use them or not >> (based on size limits enforced by the service itself). >> > This sounds like a good way forward, since it means that the user can freely choose sizes that aren't currently selectable, and if a service provider decides to allow larger images than they currently do, the application doesn't need to be updated to support this - simply enter the larger dimensions and click OK. I'll bring yours and Jonas' suggestions up with the team as soon as possible. > Some other changes to the publishing dialog that would be lovely: >> >> * the names of the preset sizes are misleading: resize sets a limit on >> the larger border and preserves aspect ratio, it doesn't enforce a 4:3 >> ratio as the preset sizes suggest. >> > Agreed; it might be helpful to document that these are max dimensions, but not necessarily what a published image will be resized to. We'll need to think about how and where, but in the meantime, I'll ticket this right away. > * the service selection does not allow multiple accounts on the same >> service. Relying on the new gnome online accounts panel might be the >> easiest path for this, do you have any plan in this direction? >> > Again, this is definitely something that we'll need to plan out first, but it is a good idea; I'll add a ticket for this, too. Cheers, -c _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
