[Shotwell] publishing and custom sizes

[Aurélien Naldi]

Hi,

I just updated to shotwell 0.11, it looks like a nice improvement over
the previous version, which comes with a price: it increases user
expectations :)
In case this is not the right place to discuss feature requests, I
wanted to submit this to the bugtracker but never got the email to
activate my account.

My new pet peeve is the publishing dialog. As you may know, google
increased the "free images" size limit for google plus users to 2048
pixels, and the dialog restricts me to either 1600 pixels or full
size, preventing me from taking advantage of the new free storage.

After a quick look at the code, it seems easy to fix by adding a
single line to the picasa export plugin.
Actually, I did just this, and it works fine (the diff is too small to
be of any interrest), but I would love a proper solution. Indeed, what
if the size changes again. Or for some reason, a user want to use some
intermediate step between the free storage limit and the original
size?
If I recall properly, f-spot has a widget to set a custom size along
with some presets, but it feels wrong, what I would like is to keep
only the presets, but to allow the user to add entries to it.
Would it be possible to have a "+" button next to the preset selection
combobox, that allows to add custom sizes? For the sake of simplicity,
I think that a list of custom sizes should be managed by shotwell
itself, each publishing plugin could then decide to use them or not
(based on size limits enforced by the service itself).


Some other changes to the publishing dialog that would be lovely:

* the names of the preset sizes are misleading: resize sets a limit on
the larger border and preserves aspect ratio, it doesn't enforce a 4:3
ratio as the preset sizes suggest.
* the service selection does not allow multiple accounts on the same
service. Relying on the new gnome online accounts panel might be the
easiest path for this, do you have any plan in this direction?

Best regards.

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Aurélien Naldi