[Shotwell] Suggestion Box / feature requests

[Adam Dingle]

Dave,

On 12/19/2010 08:55 PM, Dave wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just tried out Shotwell (I installed Ubuntu 10.10) and was hoping
> that it would be better than F-Spot which I could never get working.
>
> As some background, I use iPhoto for my photo organisation, It meets my
> needs, but doesn't run on Ubuntu.
>
> After playing with Shotwell for a few minutes (maybe 10 after importing
> the photo's from my phone) I realised that it is very close to being
> able to replace iPhoto for my needs. So here's a big pat on the back for
> the developers who have obviously worked very hard at making this great
> software.

Thanks!  :)

> I went to your web site to post a suggestion / feature request, but this
> was the only place I could find to do so.
>
> Here are my suggestions (both should be easy):
> 1) create a a feature request page for people to request features / make
> suggestions without having to subscribe to the mailing list.

OK - I've just updated the Shotwell wiki page to mention that you can 
email the Shotwell team directly at <shotwell at yorba.org>.  Also, you 
can always file a ticket in our bug tracking system at trac.yorba.org.

> 2) when Importing, import videos as well as photo's, this shouldn't be
> too hard, just a tweak to the download mechanism, and have the software
> be able to pass the video to a player app (you already do this with an
> image editor)
>
> Ideally a preview image of the video would be great, but I could wait
> for that and would be happy with a generic movie image to start with.

Video support is a major new feature in Shotwell 0.8 (coming soon now).  
This is already completely implemented in the trunk - to try it out, 
you'll need to build Shotwell from source as described here:

http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source

Or you can just wait for 0.8.  :)

cheers
adam