[Shotwell] Shotwell Plugin-based Postprocessing Tools

[Mic]

Looks good. GraphicMagic claims not be  able any more to take code from
ImageMagic, because of ImageMagic's licence.

If it is true than this is not a problem, because GraphicMagic claim to
have a stable API and run faster than ImageMagic.



On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
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