[Shotwell] Fedora Summer Coding Project

[Ruslan A. Bondar]

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Hello, Paul.
Can you describe in a bit more details..
What is a "Compare photos"? Is it something like "Find duplicates" (fdupes)
Also which functions do you want to implement using GEGL?

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:04:27 +0200
Paul Lange <palango at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> my name is Paul and I'm studying Mechanical and Process Engineering in
> Darmstadt, Germany.
> I'm interested in participating in Fedora Summer Coding [1] this
> summer, therefore I'm currently searching for a project. As one of my
> hobbies is photography I'm really interested in photo
> management/editing software. Because of this I think improving
> Shotwell would be a great project.
> 
> I have two ideas for which I would like to hear what you think about:
> 
> 1)
> Improve the display of photos. Add zooming and add display modes like
> "pass in" or "fill". Furthermore things like a "Compare photos" view
> would be nice. Parts of this could be done using Clutter to create a
> visually pleasing interface.
> 
> 2)
> Create a GEGL-based processing system. I really like the idea behind
> GEGL and think it would be great to integrate it into Shotwell. It's
> kind of slow at the moment but there's ongoing work to improve that.
> This could also include porting the current stuff over to GEGL.
> 
> 
> I would really appreciate any kind of feedback!
> 
> with kind regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010 
> 
> 
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