Looks nice to have improved integration with the RAW workflows as you will see the greatly improved 0.14 does not address this yet. Please consider adding Darktable to your list ;-) (not a Shotwell developer myself. Just a user. Luc Envoyé par Yahoo! Mail (sur Android) |
| Hello Shotwell users and developers, I have been using Shotwell for a while now. This, plus rawstudio and the GIMP compose my main photo workflow. The interaction between Shotwell and rawstudio is problematic, though, because the photo databases are separate. Shotwell gets confused when you delete pictures from within rawstudio, duplicate jpegs show up if you export from rawstudio, RAWs and jpegs are unlinked, etc. A few months ago I suggested a way to better integrate RAW development software like UFraw, rawstudio, raw therapee, and many others into Shotwell. In the mailing list thread[1] I described a solution very similar to what I gather is planned from reading Feature Request #3061 ("improve interaction with external RAW editors")[2]. This consists of --before calling the external developer software-- watching for changes to a "*_developed.jpeg" file, and passing this filename in the commandline, or similar. UFraw has had the capability to export to a set file for a while, using the --output command line option, and my patch to add that feature to rawstudio (called "client mode")[3] was accepted a while ago. Now, the Shotwell side is still missing. I played around with implementing it during last (austral) summer, not completing it, because I could not afford to spend too much time on it. Still, it helped get an idea of the dimensions of the problem. I understand, in the meanwhile, improvements of RAW handling have been made, which --due to that segfault that prevents me from running the latest version-- I haven't tested yet . My idea would be to develop this missing piece during this year's Google Summer of Code[4], maybe under the umbrella of Gnome. I have successfully taken part in this program during the past 2 years. I think the scope of this project is about right for the 12 weeks of GSoC. I would first focus on rawstudio and UFraw integration, and if time permits, add others later. If necessary, like I did with rawstudio, patches can be submitted to those projects, too. Any comments or suggestions are very welcome. Looking forward to contributing back to the project, Camilo [1] http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/2012-June/004067.html [2] http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3061 [3] http://bugzilla.rawstudio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556 [4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list Shotwell lists yorba org http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell |