Oops ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Diego Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 11, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness) To: Xan Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 12/11/06, Xan Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. If not, porting is fun and helps you make new friends. :) > > > <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 :) Forgot to mention that but I'm not sure if having ephy-d-s would be worth doing or if it would be overkill for normal usage. > > > 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
