[Shotwell] Promising!

[Jim Nelson]

Hello Mark,

Great to hear you're finding Shotwell so useful!  It's certainly not too
late for wishlist items or suggestions.  We're always looking for more user
input as means of direction.

Regarding image display, performance and scalability is something we're
about to take a hard look at.  We want Shotwell to be responsive and smooth
in all circumstances and situations.

I encourage you to check out our Trac system at http://trac.yorba.org  Our
wiki there has more information on Shotwell and the other applications we're
working on here at Yorba.  If you sign up for Trac, you can add tickets and
make comments on existing ones.  (I'll go ahead and add the ones you've
listed.)  We also have a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

Thanks for the encouraging words!

-- Jim Nelson

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Mark <m38hd at gmx.de> wrote:

> hello there!
>
> Really nice - an new image viewer for gnome - something i have really
> been looking forward to.
> Where f-spot is slow, overbloated and has an ugly way of saving images
> in per-day-folders, gthumb has a working but outdated interface and no
> feature to browse a big collection of images in a time line (an no
> in-image-tagging support).
>
> So big applause to shotwell!
>
> My first impression is... i like it. it looks modern, easy to use, fast
> and responsive. Nice:
> * nice, easy, functional interface
> * nice way of organising images per event or in timeline
>
> But maybe its not too late for some wishes and suggestions:
>
> * make images load faster
> In image viewer it takes some time until the image is clearly visible.
> If possible: Please, make it faster. Maybe remove the dotty image first
> shown - is something like "preloading" the next image possible? -
> Decoding jpegs is really slow with libjpeg, isn't it?
>
> * add tag support saved to image file
> Adding tags stored in the image files is an important approach to sort a
> huge collection
>
> * cropping works great - let me choose the ratio
> cropping is as easy and functional as it could be with shotwell - but
> for many reasons i need certain aspect ratios. If i could preselect it
> or select once and shotwell remembered my choice - cropping a number of
> images would be a charm.
>
> * let me choose how long to display an image in slideshowmode
> this is really annoying in f-spot - you can do a lot but not change the
> duration an image is shown in a slideshow? I never understood that.
> PLease, let me decide...
>
> * keep the way i can work with my keybord - ist nice and simply works!
> I tried digikam some days ago - space for next is ok, but backspace to
> go back? Try it yourself, it' s no fun.
>
> * improve remove dialog
> well, maybe it is the german translation: Should i "delete" or "keep
> files"? "Delete" means delete image in library and corresponding file?
> "Keep files" means delete from library only?
>
> * What i like despite all is that original images are untouched. but
> maybe an option to save them somewhere i can find them later easily
> (hidden folder in original folder? renamed version in original folder?)
> would be a nice thing.
>
> I enjoyed supporting shotwell development with my feedback and hope it
> will grow to a mighty means!
>
> Thanks so far,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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