[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.7 plan

[Peter DO Smith]

While I like your plan I would like to appeal for the inclusion of the
multiple tag selection facility I discussed previously.
So if, for example, amongst my many tags I have the tags 'China' and
'Flowers', by selecting both the tags 'China' and 'Flowers' I will
return all photos I took of Flowers in China. This is something easier
to implement than hierarchical tags and can coexist with hierarchical
tags.
Peter

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
> Friends of Shotwell,
>
> now that 0.6 is out the door we've already begun development for
> Shotwell 0.7.  We plan to release 0.7 some time in August, in time to
> make it comfortably into the fall releases of major distributions
> (Fedora, Ubuntu).  This means that 0.7 will be a shorter release cycle
> than 0.5 and 0.6 were, and so we must correspondingly be a bit less
> ambitious.  But we would like to include the following major new
> features in 0.7:
>
>     * Monitoring the library directory (i.e. the import directory the
> user chooses in the Preferences dialog) for added and removed files,
> which will be automatically added to or removed from the Shotwell
> library. The user will have a preference to enable or disable
> monitoring. Shotwell 0.7 will monitor only this single directory. In
> future releases we hope to be able to monitor multiple directories.
> [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/374]
>
>     * Rating photos. The user will be able to assign any of the
> following ratings to each photo: unrated (the default), 1-5 stars, or
> Rejected (the lowest rating). You will be able to sort and/or filter by
> rating. By default, Shotwell will display all photos except rejected
> photos. In the browser view, we'll have a dropdown menu on the toolbar
> that will allow you to select a different filter, e.g. only 3 stars and
> higher. This will replace Shotwell's existing hidden/favorites
> mechanism. When you upgrade from 0.6 to 0.7, all previously hidden
> photos will become Rejected and all previously favorite photos will be
> assigned a rating of 5 stars.  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2233]
>
>     * Support for video files. The user will be able to import videos
> from cameras and from folders. Shotwell will display a thumbnail for
> each video. Videos will appear along with photos in events, and tagging
> and ratings will work for videos as they do for photos. In 0.7, double
> clicking a video will probably launch Totem rather than playing the
> video inside Shotwell (though we'd like to support that sooner or
> later).  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/855]
>
>     * Migration for F-Spot users. Shotwell 0.7 will be able to migrate
> an F-Spot library to Shotwell by reading the F-Spot database directly.
> Tags and ratings from F-Spot will be preserved. If a user has edited a
> photo in F-Spot, the latest version of the photo (and, perhaps, the
> original version too) will be available in Shotwell.
> [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/139]
>
>     * A last import page that displays all photos from the last import.
> This will make it much easier to find all the photos you've just
> imported.  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/897]
>
> If time permits, we may additionally include one or more of the
> following major features:
>
>     * user-configurable import directory hierarchy
> [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597]
>     * hierarchical tags  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401]
>     * store tags in photo files [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1290]
>     * Highlights detail adjustment  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/752]
>     * upload to Shutterfly  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1094]
>
> Of course, we also hope to implement numerous smaller improvements. All
> Shotwell tickets currently marked high are potential candidates for 0.7,
> though we will almost certainly not be able to implement all of these.
>
> Your feedback on this plan is welcome.  I've also added all of the above
> to a new 0.7 section on the Shotwell wiki page
> (http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell).
>
> adam
>
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