[Shotwell] Fedora Summer Coding Project

[Adam Dingle]

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

Yes - that would be a nice feature for Shotwell.  I've created a ticket 
for this at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1810 .

> 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
>   

Aha - I see.  I think we can probably live without that feature for the 
moment, but feel free to create a ticket for this if you like.

>
> 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).

We think that enhancing Shotwell's slideshows would be a great summer 
project.  We just looked at the Fedora Summer Coding web page 
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010).  It looks like the 
next step is for us to create an idea page for Shotwell on the Fedora 
Summer Coding wiki.  Then you can submit a project proposal and if it is 
accepted (you'll find out in late May) it looks like you would begin 
work in June.  We have a couple of questions about the process and so I 
just sent an email to the Summer Coding mailing list, but with any luck 
we can get the ball rolling soon.

We're not yet sure whether transitions should be implemented using 
Clutter, Cairo, OpenGL or something else - maybe we can all think about 
that and discuss in the near future.

cheers
adam