[Shotwell] Shotwell Plugin-based Postprocessing Tools

[Adam Dingle]

Camilo,

thanks for your detailed proposal.  This all looks pretty reasonable to me.  One point, though: I don't think we want individual effects to show up as icons in the editing toolbar (beside Crop, Straighten and so on).  Space there is already quite limited: on some displays (e.g. netbooks with 1024 horizontal pixels) we're already using just about all the available space.  Also, I think these effects will be relatively rarely used, so I don't think giving them permanent real estate on the screen is justified.

Instead, I think these effects should appear inside the Adjust dialog, near the existing built-in color transformations.  There are two ways we can do that: they could either appear below the existing sliders in the dialog, or we could add a second tab to the dialog where all of the effects would appear.  If a user has no effects installed, then the second tab wouldn't appear at all.

adam

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Of course, I intend to write a longer proposal detailing this, and
> > also expect to see changes during both the design and implementation
> > phases.
> 
> I have published a document containing a description of how I intend
> to solve the issues you mention, plus a proposed API for the plugins
> and some GUI mockups:
> 
> https://github.com/polymeris/shotwell/wiki/Design
> 
> Your feedback is appreciated. A proposal including timeline of the
> project is to follow.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Camilo
>