Re: My top Goal list

["Tim Millard" <millardster gmail com>]

On 8/27/06, Marcus Hast <marcushast gmail com> wrote:
> * Grouping / Stacking and handling versioning/tagging with this
> properly. (So an image can be a "version" of a group, eg panorama or
> HDR composite.) It should be possible to have recursive behaviour.
> (This means that the "group" of images needs to be a F-Spot object
> which can have tags attached etc.)

Would be a very useful feature.

> * Printing support. The basics would be that the same sizes aren't
> used everywhere. So it should be possible to alter the crop ratios
> depending on what you want to print. A basic aid for printing could be
> to add a "DPI" calcuation for the image. This would aid the user
> before printing. More advanced features would be to make it possible
> to create collages or print on several pages (eg to make "cheap"
> panorama prints).

We might be able to borrow code from or externally call
"gnome-photo-printer" and "poster".

> * Modularize effects. Make a standard interface to handle effects.
> This could quite possibly be handled better with a plugin API.

http://www.gegl.org/ was mentioned a few days ago by Neilen Marais.

> * Import RAW+JPEG. I would like if my RAW+JPEG shots were
> automagically imported as one image. The RAW would be the original
> image and the JPEG would be a version of it.

I think the easiest way would be to check exif data (time being most
important, what about burst mode?). Otherwise, we could do some sort
of optical comparison.
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