[Shotwell] Call for testing

[Martin Olsson]

I tested r1806. I found no critical bugs yet, but some minor stuff:

* When I do "Show in File Manager" I would like the specific
file pre-selected in the nautilus window that appears. I really
find this annoying.

* When I use "Set as Desktop Background" on a 2000x3000
(i.e. non-landscape orientation) photo, only a part of the
photo is visible on my 1680x1050 screen. It's nice that you
switched from the current "scale to fit" to another approach
where you add padding instead so that the whole photo is
guaranteed to be on screen (this is much better than the
current "scale to fit width" which will sometimes crop
faces halfway through etc). Maybe you can use a PNG so that
the padding is transparent (does that mean the bgcolor in
the GNOME appearence dialog is used? not sure...) Otherwise
black is probably fine.

* Workflow issue; two persons take photos at a party/trip or
whatever and later share photos with each other. Since the
photos are from the same day, Shotwell mixes the two
different sets of photos into a single event. This is a problem
because I might want to show someone just my photos.
Also, if this wasn't a party but some sort of professional
photo shot, it's critical to know which photos
where taken by whom for copyright reasons etc.
Looking at camera EXIF is not sufficient since
people might very well have the same camera.
This can be solved by implementing "autotag with tag BLAH on import"
but I would personally prefer if the default was to import
each set of photos into a named event instead.

* Import the JPG linked below. Pango injection attack ftw! :-)
http://temp.minimum.se/shotwell_other/pango_needs_escaping.tgz
(shotwell:17678): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &
What you need to do is to take the tags through:
http://www.valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.Markup.printf_escaped.html

* The "Browse" button under "Preferences" would use some padding love,
it looks too compact with the image right next to the word "Browse".

* The Preferences dialog should be resizable. I, for one, tried to make
it bigger so I could read the full path set for "import photos to".

* Pressing ALT-E, ALT-R, ALT-I in "Preferences", don't work; i.e. console says it all:
(shotwell:18398): Gtk-WARNING **: Couldn't find a target for a mnemonic activation.

* Inside "Preferences"; ALT-R is bound to both "Browse"-button and "External RAW editor".

* Open a specific photo, hit F11 to go fullscreen (this makes gnome-panel go away)
and then click "Red Eye" in the toolbar. Now gnome-panel appears again, which is a
bit untidy. I see this on a clean Ubuntu 10.04

* When I do "File::Import" Shotwell asks me if I want to make copies of the images
or link directly. However, if I drag files to the Shotwell window, it doesn't ask
(I think it might just link to the external photo in this case which might cause
users to accidentally delete them when they "move to trash" later on). I think it
should ask in this case as well just to keep things clear.

* Resize the shotwell window so that it consomes about 25% of the screen, then moved
it to the bottom right quadrant of the screen. Select some photos and hit "Slideshow".
Then press Escape to exit the slideshow. Now the Shotwell window has been moved to
0,0 instead so the Shotwell window is located in the top left quadrant of the screen.

* If I open a photo and press CTRL-D to open the "Adjust" dialog.
Then I can't reach the top widget by pressing TAB (i.e. where you
move the light-point and dark-point in the histogram or whatever
those things are called). Accessibility-wise it would be nice
if this feature was usable with keyboard only setups (making it
much easier to use with screenreaders etc).

* At the email/password screen under "File::Publish::Picasa::Login"
the keybindings ALT-E for e-mail and ALT-P for password are shown
using mnemonics but they don't work.

* Previously, one could extract debug info to the terminal
using "SHOTWELL_LOG=1 shotwell" but now it's necessary to
use "SHOTWELL_LOG=1 SHOTWELL_LOG_FILE=:console: shotwell".
I think the latter environment variable should be set to
console by default so it works even if you use the old way.

* If I select a photo and "Photos :: Adjust Time & Date" and
change the exposure date by a large amount like a couple of
days then the photos are moved out of the current viewport
but they are still selected. I think it would be better if
you called something like viewport.scroll_to_selection() after
the exposure date has been changed, just to make sure that
the selected photos are always visible to the user.

* I don't use AM/PM time since I live in Europe.
So I'd prefer if the "Adjust Time & Date" dialog was adjusted
to my locale and thus didn't show AM/PM but instead a 24-hour
clock. If I right click the Date+Time in gnome-panel and select
Preferences, I've got 24-hour clock configured in there so
maybe Shotwell can read this setting from
"/apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/format" or similar?

* The print preview dialog pre-select the "Letter" paper size
and also happily informs me that an A4 is 8.27 inch x 11.69 inch
but we use "cm" here and most europeans print on A4 papers.
This repros even if I go into "System::Administration::Language Support",
switch to the "Text" TAB and choose swedish locale there
and finally pressing apply system-wide and restarting Shotwell.

* When selecting multiple photos and then opening
"Photos::Adjust Date&Time" only one photo is shown
which is a bit confusing. It would be nice if there
was a visual cue in the UI here that clearly indicated
that this photo is just the first among the selected
photos. For example, you could render it as a stack of
photos where the second photo is showing up partially
behind the first one.



		Martin


On 06/16/2010 04:34 AM, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've been working diligently on Shotwell 0.6 and we have high hopes
> forthis release.  Several big new features have been added as well as
> a slew of
> tweaks, additions, and bug fixes.  Some of the more big ticket items
> include:
>
> * Basic RAW support
> * Image zooming
> * PNG support
> * Support for EXIF, IPTC, and XMP
> * Edit with external editor
> * ... and more!
>
> We could use your help.  We're hoping to ship Shotwell 0.6 in the next two
> weeks and would like to run it through its paces.  We need people to
> download the current revision in trunk (not the tarball) and really beat up
> on it.  If you're interested, follow the directions here for getting the
> source and building it:
>
> http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source
>
> If you find bugs or issues -- anything that seems odd -- please feel free to
> report them here on the mailing list or via our Trac ticketing system at:
>
> http://trac.yorba.org/
>
> Thanks for your continued support!
>
> -- Jim Nelson
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