Except for some (now considered) minor issue, All-hands and UDS Karmic were both amazing!
I came back exhausted, but I feel like I really know the company much better now. I am also very happy with the progress we made concerning the cooperation between Canonical Desktop Experience Team and the Kubuntu community. More on this soon hopefully…
Social events were great as well… my favorite moment is probably sebas, rgreening and me performing an interpretation of Barbie Girl at the karaoke… hopefully this was not recorded (I do not dare visiting youtube anymore)
I hacked a bit on some cool stuff too… First, I experimented with Solid to create a picture importer for Gwenview. You can find a proof of concept of this on github.
It’s very simple: it asks you for an event name, and then proceed to import all pictures to ~/photos/<year>/<event>/, renaming them according to the exif shoot date. When done it asks you whether you want to remove the pictures from the device. The final version will probably also give you the choice between importing all pictures or only a selection. This will be useful when you have pictures from multiple events.
It’s written with PyKDE right now, but I will probably have to rewrite it in C++ before integrating it in KDE.
I also hacked on another tool, but I’ll blog about this later…
Yes! Glad to hear about photos importer in Gewnview. It’s like I don’t really use DigiKam. I’ll try it
Thanks ;]
The photo importer would be nice. I somethimes have problems with the exif rotation. maybe it would be nice to auto rotate the pictures when you import them.
thanks
andreas
Why will you have to rewrite it in C++ before integrating it in KDE?
Is there no general direction towards writing programs in scripting languages in KDE and is this kind of program not ideal for this?
As far as I know there is only one Python application in KDE: it’s a printer tool and I remember it was a bit hard to swallow for some devs, so I figured maybe I should avoid such problems… Another point was being able to easily share some code with Gwenview (I do not want to go through the pain of creating bindings to be able to call Gwenview code from Python!)
Having said that, maybe my first sentence can be changed to “there is already one Python application in KDE”
. I love Python and there is nothing which requires heavy computation in this importer, so it should perform correctly in Python.
Hi,
Importer looks nice. I did similar script in bash. No gui, just take date of event from image, asks for event name and put all into //YYYYMMDD_. Actually it supports jpg, tiff, raw images and videos (mov). Then are some additional action performed:
* autorotate jpeg images
* extract thumbnails from raw images, because Gwenview does not support them (but actual Dolphin does)
And at the end Gwenview is started
If I will be able to replace the shell script with Gwenview importer, would be great.
So my wishes:
* fully configurable archive path
* Ability to do some additional actions like above + user configurable actions
* Optional and configurable final rename action
It should be configurable at the end. I just want to make sure it comes about with sane defaults and a non scary user interface (ie: the configuration settings should not be the first thing you see)
Grrr, the correct path is /<archive_dir>/<year>/YYYYMMDD_<event_name>/
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I’m a Ubuntu (Gnome) user. Gwenview is one of very few apps from KDE that I really need (IMHO, THERE IS NO good image browser for GTK/GNOME).
Is there any possibility to make GwenView better integrated with GNOME and less dependent on additional KDE libs?
I know that GwenView has a lot of fans among GNOME users.
Maybe it is possible to create a GwenView LITE build especially for GNOME/XFCE users which doesn’t require installation unneeded KDE applications to use GwenView as a default browser? Maybe it is possible to replace some of KDE dependencies with GNOME ones?
Removing kdelibs dependency is not going to happen, as it would basically mean rewriting Gwenview from scratch. Still, you should be able to get better integration of Gwenview (and any other Qt/KDE application) into GNOME with the new QGtk Qt style.
[...] Still I managed to get some work done on the start page and fixed a few bugs here and there. The main improvement though is the implementation of an importer for Gwenview, based on some previous experiment. [...]