[Shotwell] publishing and custom sizes

[Jonas Bushart]

Hello,

interesting ideas. THose sound good. I will add those ideas to the 
bugtracker ticket: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3865

Jonas

Am 30.08.2011 21:21, schrieb 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.
>