Re: New feature ideas

["Aigars Mahinovs" <aigarius gmail com>]

On 9/26/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen gmail com> wrote:
> On 26/09/06, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Here is another set of things that F-spot could do:
> > http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/index.html
> >
> > F-spot is in the prime position to go after Aperture and provide a
> > great set of profesional workflow tools for Linux photo entusiasts. It
> > just needs some more features and a bit more vision to bring them
> > together. Please.
> >
>
> I don't see any features there that I would deem nessacary at this
> stage. I think it better to work on bugfixes for the time being. But,
> if there's a specific feature that you'd like, then you can file a
> wish at:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=f-spot

Well, the main thing of this release of Aperture is the library
management - the abiity to have the photos stored in many different
on-line or off-line locations and still be able to operate on them.

Like for example, one could have a few gigs of newest photos on his
laptop, then a separate folder having only screen-sized copies of the
Favorite images and images from a couple other tags, then a folder on
a remote server (usually not mounted) having most of the photos (RAWs
and other versions) and the oldes photos moved to CD/DVD backups with
some labels. And all those photos could still be accessible -
thumbnails for all photos could be shown in the timeline, one could
find out what versions of the photo exist and where are they (local,
remote, which DVD backup), one could watch a slideshow of cached
photos (screen-sized copies) and freely manipulate the photos that are
mounted at the moment. If I insert a backup DVD then I expect to be
able to just go and edit some photos from there and have new versions
created on the hard drive.

That is what I am talking about by looking at Apperture. We should
look at each of their features and think about how to do that in
F-Spot and how to bring that one step further.

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Best regards,
   Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigarius debian org
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