Time is nigh for the 0.2 release for solang.
First of all a news: We have a solang-users list now.
Before we go into the details of the next release, I would like to address some issues and questions that were raised as a part of the comments to my blog and on this blog.
First of all MANY, MANY thanks for the interest. We are very happy you have noticed this project.
1) Solang is NOT an f-spot "clone". It contains / will contain features that f-spot may or may not ever have. (Searching using multiple dates, searching using photo-property, paginated browsing etc). It also lacks a lot of features that f-spot even currently provides (A plethora of editing options and filters etc)
2) Jaunty compilation issue: The git version of solang should be compilable. Exiv version 0.18 has been supported. The author of this article has been kind enough to test it out.
3) In-photo tagging: We are NOT planning to do this. Instead we plan to do something better... we plan to port solang to windows in the near future. The back end database path will be made configurable, so that the database may be placed in some shared user area visible to all OS installations on a host.
4) Import from f-spot: We are planning to do this probably in the next release. If this is an immediate requirement, please let us know on solang-users mailing list and we will try to make a patch release for this after the 0.2 release.
5) Exif-IPTC editing... we haven't decided yet .. but maybe soon enough ..
A request to all users, please file bugs at Solang Project Page (needs login). Also, we are available at sane indian working hours (and sometimes even the insane ones) on the #solang room on irc.freenode.net. Feel free to drop in to let us know of feature requests, any required build assistance, rants and whatever you feel like (we discuss movies also on the room .. :-P)
Okay, so, for the next release we present the following feature list:
1) Paginated views for memory and speed efficiency (in git already)
2) Icon zooming in browser view (in git already)
3) Undoable delete feature for tags and photos (partially in git)
4) Undoable basic editing (flip/rotate/scale) (underway)
5) Batch editing of pictures (hopefully) (TBD)
6) An importer from flickr (Underway)
7) A basic exporter that exports selected photos to a directory (hopefully through a basic editing pipeline) (TBD)
Another thing... it would be nice if someone could find the time to create some user documentation for solang... otherwise, it will take some time for us to come up with a decent doc for this.
Okay, enough talk... back to coding... and we are waiting to hear from you.
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6 comments:
Thank you for such a promising project :)
I've been notified that the first version of Solang .deb package has just been uploaded to Ubuntu Karmic Koala.
Nice !
The first thing I think when I read F-Spot replacement is: does it use mono or not?
Will definitely keep an eye on this.
good luck
Hi, thank you so much for starting this!
I have a question: will it be possible to move images beetween directories so that solange will be aware of this and can update the path to the picture in its own database?
I don't like the idea of a centralized tag databse, even when it can be shared between different os's. I want to preserve tags even when I copy them from one computer to another, and the easiest way to achieve that is including the tags in the files themselves.
Agreed... having metadata live separately from the data makes me sad. When you share pictures with people, the tags should go with them...
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