Re: f-spot future

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 23:00 -0600, Stephen Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Arun Persaud <apersaud lbl gov> wrote:
> >> As for a roadmap, I don't have anything concrete, but some of the
> >> things that I'd like to do is update to gtk#3 which might be getting a
> >> release (probably beta) in the next few weeks.  Also, shana has been
> >> doing some great work on a binding tool.  Once that's finished I'm
> >> hoping that we'll have regularly updated gnome libraries, including
> >> the gstreamer-1.0 stuff.  If that's in I'd like to explore other
> >> multimedia features.
> > Would this include the ability to handle movies in the same way as
> > photos are handled? This is the number one feature I'm missing in f-spot.
> > I tried a few other programs recently and didn't find one that handles
> > tagging and searching as well as f-spot does, so I would really like to
> > keep using f-spot...
> > Looking forward to the next release.
> I've heard a few people mention that they'd like to handle videos in
> f-spot.  This is something I'd definitely like to look into and
> imagine that gstreamer bindings would make this much much easier.  We
> are also using some of banshee's code, so it might be possible to grab
> some of the code they are using for playing videos.
> However, I'm definitely not promising anything right now :)

Oy.  Integration between Banshee and F-Spot - that happens and I'm
sending someone a case of beer.

Have the videos in my F-Spot show up as a category in Banshee grouped by
applied F-Spot tags...