[Shotwell] Fedora Summer Coding Project

[Paul Lange]

Hey,

thanks for the feedback and ideas.

What I mean with compare photo view is shown on this website: 
http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1233193&seqNum=4

The following page shows what I mean with "pass in" or "fill (here zoom
to fit" mean:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/WS666FE5AB-F4E3-40a2-BDD1-98CBF68773F3.html


The creation of the GEGL pipeline by the core team makes sense to me.
However I really like the idea of improving the slideshow mode. Adding
transitions and background music sounds like a great project to me. Do
you have any ideas on how to implement that? sound should work via
Gstreamer but transitions could be implemented with Clutter or Cairo
(F-Spot does this).

regards,
Paul

ps. @adam: built libraw, trunk builds now. thanks a lot :) 
pps. does anyone else has problems with sending pgp-signed mails to the list?


Am Dienstag, den 20.04.2010, 14:30 -0700 schrieb Adam Dingle: 
> Paul,
> 
> it's great to hear you're interested in working on Shotwell this 
> summer.  We'd certainly be happy to have your help.
> 
> I can comment on a couple of your proposed ideas.  First, zooming has 
> recently been implemented in the trunk (try it!)  We're also interested 
> in replacing Shotwell's photo transformation pipeline with GEGL (that's 
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1624) but that will be a major project with 
> lots of architectural consequences for Shotwell as a whole, so I think 
> that is probably a project for the core team.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "pass in" or "fill" modes - can you 
> explain?  Also, how would the "compare photos" view work?  Shotwell 
> already lets you compare the unedited and edited versions of any photo, 
> by the way - just press the Shift key.
> 
> I'd suggest that you look at our existing Wiki page listing summer 
> coding ideas:
> 
> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas
> 
> You can also look through our ticket database 
> (http://trac.yorba.org/report/16) for ideas.  You might want to take on 
> some smaller tickets at first to help you get to know the code.  Let us 
> know what you think you might want to work on first and we'll be happy 
> to provide some ideas and feedback.  Thanks!
> 
> adam
> 
> Paul Lange 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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