[Shotwell] Shotwell - Thoughts on work-flow and extensions

[Adam Dingle]

Bruno,

On 05/24/2010 01:23 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
> So far, I registered on Trac, downloaded the trunk SVN and built
> Shotwell from source. I haven't really had the opportunity to try it out
> but I had a look through the source code to see what Vala looked like
> and how complex it was. And I must say that I am pleasantly surprised:
> coming from a Java background, Vala seems very easy to follow and the
> Shotwell source code is one of the clearest I've seen in a long time.
>    
>

Thanks!  :)

> I would be very interested in contributing to Shotwell development first
> by helping fix bugs and hopefully later contributing new features. What
> easy bugs would people recommend I look at to get started?
>    

We'd be happy to have your help.  In our ticket database, if a ticket 
has no owner that means that nobody is actively working on it.  So feel 
free to work on any of these tickets.  If you do start working on a 
ticket, please set yourself to be the owner so we won't step on each 
other's feet.  We're currently hoping to fix all tickets at high 
priority for 0.6, which may be ambitious.

Here are some possibly easy bugs/features at high priority:

#1919       Ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom in Photos view
#1934       allow Add Tags/Modify Tags in full-window mode
#1952       remove Display Borders preference
#1959       Rename Photo causes soft assertion
#1965       import dialog nits

And here are some possibly easy bugs/features at medium priority:

#853       Control+Shift+Click
#1110       send pictures via email
#1304       display shadow around each photo
#1321       icons in Publish dialog dropdown
#1845       Indent and ellipsize filenames in Import Complete dialog
#1858       Cursor disappear when not in use during fullscreen mode
#1954       show exposure bias in Extended Information

> Other features that I would be interested in but that are not on the
> Shotwell roadmap and would probably be better delivered as plugins or
> external tools:
>        * Create an HDR image from several identical shots that only
>          differ in exposure compensation;
>    

Yes, this would be cool.  I've created a ticket at 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1968 .

>        * Load data from a GPS device, synchronise against timestamps and
>          use GPS data to add geo-location tags to pictures;
>    

As David Velazquez pointed out, we do have plans to allow the user to 
browse (and, hopefully, filter/search) photos according to their 
geographic location; this is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1473 .  But 
your request is actually different: you'd like to be able to generate 
geotags by synchronizing photo timestamps with data from a GPS device 
(which, presumably, you lugged around when taking the photos).  That 
would be useful; I've ticketed this at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1969 .

>        * Add simple annotations to pictures.
>    

As David pointed out, this is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1573 .

Thanks again for your feedback and suggestions -

adam