Hey, On 12/11/06, Diego Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I was sitting here reading the wiki[1] and just remembered that > thumbnailing for websites is a feature request getting rotten[2]. > Now, I also read suggestions to use the f-spot navigation widget[3] > which I think is total crack and would make Ephy so BLING BLING that > it would easily become a killer app. > > I thought a little about it so I wouldn't write crack stuff that is > impossible, and found that using that widget (together with the actual > image browsing one, I mean the one where this slider takes effect) > would be easy.
So I understand that both widgets are written in C and not in C#? Nice. > <innocent-guess> > Since f-spot is an image app and this two widgets (browsing slider and > view pane) are image-centric we can easily embrace them just by > providing what they want: images. How? with some good ol' copy-paste > from gnome-web-photo, of course there would be a lot of crack needed > to make f-spot magic work on Ephy. > </innocent-guess> > > As far as I can see the consequences of this, hacking it would imply > the following: > 1. Integrating bookmarks and history > 2. Integrating gnome-web-photo or at least copy-paste the relevant parts > 3. Create a new window/widget based on f-spot that can be fed with a > set of images (as in f-spot) obtained from a bookmarks or history > items range/set. > 3½. Document it! (or maybe make it available to other apps and not just > Ephy) > 4. Ask a mad amount of questions to everyone > 5. Enjoy success > IMHO the really hard part is (1). If there's really the will to do it I think we should take it into consideration together with the plan to move towards a sqlite/ephy-data-server model and try to get everything together for 2.20. I mean, if we are going to do crack, let's do it properly :) > So the reason to write this to the list is to hear some opinions about > how can this be done and to receive some tips. I would gladly get into > this, and if someone wants to "mentor" me I would be twice glad :). > > Opinions of the Ephy gurus will be appreciated. > > End of crack, get back to your normal mailing. > > References: > 1 - http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/BookmarksHistoryIntegration > 2 - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326508 > 3 - > http://live.gnome.org/data/Epiphany(2f)BookmarksHistoryIntegration/attachments/fspot-time-bar.png > > -- > Diego, your crack-feature suggester. > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
