Re: Introducing Photos

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

> It is my understanding that Jon had discussions with the developers of these
> applications, and for various reasons it was decided that writing something
> from scratch is better. For EoG and GThumb the reason given was that their
> maintainers did not have time to work on a major redesign, and for Shotwell it
> was an architectural issue with the program.
>
> Please feel free to correct me if I am misrepresenting something. :-)


Debarshi,

Can you repurpose gThumb to meet your goals? It meets many (most?) of 
your goals already, and lives in the gnome ecosystem (bugzilla, git, 
etc). It has a plugin system for experimenting with new features 
(including new metadata sources). It already has 
Flickr/Facebook/whatever uploading. The sidebar already groups things 
into a tree of real filesystems and devices, plus artificial groupings 
("Catalogs", "Selections"). It already has editing and printing. It has 
no sqlite dependency.

Mostly, the effort would be to add the shell integration bits, and a 
slicker gnome-shell-ish UI. The basic image-handling framework is there 
already.

The primary maintainer, Paolo, indicated that he didn't have time to do 
the work himself [1], but if you're keen on doing the work, I doubt he'd 
be opposed to a "next generation" unstable branch...

This is meant as a helpful suggestion, rather than as stop-energy or 
bike-shedding :-)

- Mike


[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gthumb-list/2011-December/msg00000.html