[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.13 to drop JPEG support

[Keith Duncan]

Nice one! - coincidence that this announcement is made on 1 April?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

Still it really is on the blog so I guess it must be true...?!?!
;-)




On 1 April 2012 08:55, Eric Gregory <eric at yorba.org> wrote:

> [SAN FRANCISCO] Yorba announced today that Shotwell, their flagship photo
> organizer software, will become a lossless-only photo manager with the
> upcoming release of version 0.13.
>
> Lossless-only means support for legacy image formats such as JPEG will be
> dropped, a forward-looking move Yorba founder Adam Dingle praised as
> “position[ing] Shotwell a generation ahead of competing photo management
> solutions.”
>
> Upon installation, Shotwell 0.13 will upconvert the user’s existing JPEG
> image files to the lossless DNG format.
>
> Users requiring additional space for their upconverted photos will be
> directed to a site where they may purchase a new hard drive.  A percentage
> of proceeds from these purchases will fund Shotwell development.
>
> Yorba is confident it’s a positive step for photo management.
>
> “Think of it this way,” said Shotwell lead developer Lucas Beeler, “If I
> bought a four terabyte hard drive but only used two terabytes, I’d be
> wasting half the drive.  Free space equals wasted money, which means
> Shotwell 0.13 users will get more out of their computers than they did with
> Shotwell 0.12.”
>
> As Yorba’s Jim Nelson wrote on a blog post, “As a Gnome application, our
> goal is simplicity. Dropping support for legacy formats such as JPEG is one
> step toward that goal.”
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