Re: [gthumb-list] web albums and roadmap

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

> It would be interesting to know if there is some missing feature that
> you'd like to see in version 2.12

Great stuff, Paolo. Thanks for all your open source work!

My main concerns:

1. Raw-photo handling is not great. Using dcraw is not very satisfactory 
(being an external program), and I'm not sure if much is happening with 
libopenraw.

http://www.libraw.org/ looks like an interesting alternative. It appears 
to be a library-oriented rewrite of dcraw. Perhaps it should be 
preferred, with fallbacks to dcraw or libopenraw.

2. Does tagging/categories/catalog work for people? I don't use those 
features at all, but I know others on this list have offered a number of 
suggestions in the past. Is it working for you?

Minor concerns:

3. The properties dialog in the sidebar could be improved, to show 
things other than the exif metadata (like a histogram, geolocation info, 
etc). But I think that was the longterm plan anyway...

4. It would be nice to have a geolocation extension for 2.12.0, for 
reading or adding geolocation metadata, and displaying it on a map in a 
nifty way. But that would be lots of work, no doubt.

Optimizations:

5. Folder loading can still be sluggish. It would be nice to speed that 
up wherever possible.

- Mike