[Shotwell] Open with Raw Editor and Importing images...

[Chris Lindsay]

I have been testing out some of the recent enhancements to Shotwell
0.5.90+trunk and have a few thoughts on how certain aspects have been
implements.

1. Opening raw file with Raw Editor

     - When you click on the menu item with a raw file selected, GIMP
is used to open the raw file using the UFRaw plugin. My preference
here would to have UFRaw opened directly as not everyone will want to
open the edited raw file in GIMP and as it stands the only way to save
the file is to finally open the file in GIMP and then export it.

     - A second point here is, if UFRaw is not your raw editing
application of choice you do not benefit from being able open your raw
editor of choice from within Shotwell. Possible solutions here would
be to allow the user to change the settings of button to point to
their preferred editor. Or, when you right click on the raw file and
navigate to the open raw editor, a sub menu is opened with the various
options as used by Nautilus (Open with) this would also have the
potential benefit of combining the the "Open External Editor" and
"Open Raw Editor" into one menu item.

2. Importing images from Camera/ Memory Card

    - When I insert my SD card I get an error message "Unable to
unmount camera at this time." The Card has been mounted, I just need
to navigate to Cameras on left-hand-side to open the memory card and
import your images.

    - Another thought when importing images, the option to hide
already imported images could be improved by still showing images
already in your library, but overlaying them with an "X" (as in
Picasa) or by fading them? this way you can still see the images you
already have, but are still clearly differentiated from your new
images.

   - Finally; I'm not sure if this is the case, but once the hide
duplicates box is ticked,does this stop these 'hidden' images from
being imported?


Best Regards

Chris



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Chris