Sounds like a plan. My feature list proposal would be:
1 Automatic generation of preview images
- Supporting at least JPEG, GIF, PNG and PDF files
- Arbitrary size
- Good quality
2 Crop tool to create clippings of pictures
- GUI (something like http://tools.uvumi.com/crop.html)
- Configurable for fixed width, height or ratio
3 On the fly asset management
- Easy selection of assets from within dialogs (current selection
with links is fine from a technical point of view, but the usability
could be improved)
- Ability to add new assets from within a dialog: Many users have
problems organizing their work the way that the first add the assets
to the DMS and then link to them from the website. So creating web
content and selecting/inserting assets to be used would correspond
better to the natural workflow.
At the moment I cannot be the one throwing the spark because I know
nothing about 4.1, STK and asset variations etc. But if someone points
me in the right direction I'm sure I could contribute as well.
-will
On 17.07.2009, at 22:39, Thomas Duffey wrote:
On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Will Scheidegger wrote:
On 17.07.2009, at 19:07, Grégory Joseph wrote:
On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Will Scheidegger wrote:
So it's no waste of time if the community starts to build one for
the CE too?
I guess it's up to you to compare the small price of a license vs
the time it'd take you to reimplement this ;)
Hm... did you change the pricing of EE? I don't remember seeing the
small price you're mentioning ;-)
Whether or not the price is big or small the fact is many of us are
using Magnolia in projects where buying EE is not an option and we
need better automatic image resizing / cropping features!
I have contributed a little bit of work related to this in the past
(Scale image tag, yuck) and would be happy to contribute again if we
can agree on a small useful feature set. Been doing some work with
4.1 and the STK backend and it seems like some of the groundwork has
been laid (Asset variations?) and the CE version has do-nothing
placeholders for things actually implemented in EE. Takes a while
to understand what the EE developers had in mind but I'm sure we can
do it.
Tom
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