[Shotwell] 0.4.1 question about "Adjust" function real time preview

[Nate Homier]

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 12:05 -0800, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Ah.  I thought the original poster was saying that the adjust sliders
> did not work.
> 
> There is a delay after releasing the slider for the adjustment to take
> effect.  These transformations are CPU-intensive (they have to process
> each pixel of the image, which is represented by at least three
> values, and the math can be complex).  We're not-quite-there with
> having these made in real-time rather than relying on a delay.
> 
> We have a couple of tickets for this:
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/673
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/679
> 
> We're thinking about 0.5.0 right now, so this might be something we
> attack soon.  If anyone wants to submit a patch, we're more than happy
> to take a look!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Jim
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Roman Yepishev
> <roman.yepishev at yandex.ua> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 11:46 -0800, Jim Nelson wrote:
>         > Hi Nate,
>         >
>         > This works for me with 0.4.1 on Karmic.  Can you reproduce
>         this every
>         > time, with different photos?
>         
>         Hm, I guess I am seeing the same behavior:
>         
>         When I am adjusting the sliders, the image is refreshed only
>         when slider
>         is left in one position for some time (timeout callback?).
>         
>         --
>         Roman Yepishev <roman.yepishev at yandex.ua>
>         
> 
One idea might be to show a low resolution thumbnail and use that for
real time display of adjustments.  At any rate I have been happy with
0.4.1, very nice.

Nate