Re: [Shotwell] Shotwell 0.30.8 for Windows

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 21:08 +0100, Christian Simon wrote:
> I guess, there are not very many Windows users around here. Yet, I 
> wanted to let you know that I uploaded a current build of Shotwell 
> 0.30.8 for Windows 10 (x64):
>
> https://github.com/cwrsimon/shotwell/releases

Nice work. I already tested it a couple of weeks ago, worked much
better than I thought.

> The built is far from perfect. For example, as webkit-gtk does not 
> compile under Windows, the publishing plugins are missing. There are 
> probably lots of Windows related issues going to emerge in the course
> of 
> the next weeks and months. But I wanted to use the time available to 

One thing I already noticed is that w use D-Bus to open the file
manager, that needs a replacement for Windows.

Also the integrated help system is missing.

> publish a built, so people have something to play with. IMHO it's 
> already more fun working with Shotwell than with Microsoft's pesty 
> Photos app ...
>
> If time allows, I would like to start testing my patches with the 
> current master branch. Are you interested in receiving a pull
> request 
> someday?

Sure. Much appreciated :)