[Shotwell] new and future releases

[Adam Dingle]

Jorge,

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Jorge Ortega <jorge.ortega111 at gmail.com>wrote:

> First of all merry Christmas to all of you!!
>

Happy holidays and New Year to you as well.  :)


> Second: very sincere congratulations for a very significant release. From
> today I can start using Shotwell as my photo manager thanks to the ability
> to save tags to the files and the auto-update option and in the hope that
> few things I still need will eventually come. . Not only that but I also
> have a video manager!! Farewell to Picasa....
>

Great!  :)


>
> I hope you don't mind if I point out what I think the program still needs:
>
> 1-Search feature: I know this is on the way so thanks in advance for that.
> This is perhaps the single most important feature still missing. I don't
> know if there is agreement on this but in my view you should be able to
> search at least tags, file names and folder names. Very definitely tags.
>

Agreed:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/80
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1587


>
> 2-I believe this has also been requested but I don't know what the plans
> are: some kind of tags management. When you've got hundreds of different
> tags (for many thousands of images) to scroll up and down the list is not
> an
> option any more. A hierarchical view would be good:
> nature>forest>trees>pine
> trees...
>

Right:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401


>
> 3-Some kind of separation between raw files and jpegs. As it is now,
> everything is in the same pot which is very inconvenient. Possible answers
> to this: multiple libraries or better still multiple profiles. The bottom
> line is I need to know when I'm between originals and edited files.
>

As we recently discussed here, we'd like Shotwell to be able to display RAW
and JPEG pairs as a single photo, which should make this easier:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1772


>
> 4-RAW to DNG conversion. Is this something really polemic in Linux? Just
> now
> this is the one thing that sends me back to Windows as far as
> photo management. Everything else I can just manage.
>

A reasonable idea.  I've ticketed this here:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3018


>
> 5-Multiple views: folder view (tree/alphabetical/date view). I think this
> is
> on the way.
>

Right:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2747



>
> 6- I can't use Shotwell to import my files from devices until it let me
> choose the name of the folders and where to put them.
>

Yes - we'd like to improve this:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1597
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1942
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2170


>
> 7- Better editing tools. I know shotwell is not (and will not be)
> replacement for Gimp. But really, for good/quick tone/color/contrast/light
> control all is needed is one tool: levels or curves with the ability to
> apply to different color channels. And of course for the less inclined to
> investigate the tool an auto-level setting.
>

I've added a new ticket for adjusting color channels independently:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3019

As you probably know Shotwell already has an auto-enhance feature (which
applies to all channels at once).


>
> As I said, thanks again for this timely update. It is just so good when you
> can do in your chosen desktop what you need to do without having to search
> for increasingly  exotic/inconvenient options: kde, wine, proprietary
> software and in the en Windows.
>

Glad you like it.  :)  I hope we'll be able to implement some of these
features in the next few releases.  For more information about our future
plans, see the Development section on the Shotwell wiki:

http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell

adam