Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Did anybody looked at how those other software handle exporting to flick, picasa or other web services? For Shotwell uploading to Flickr and Facebook is planned for 0.4 which is to be released in December. Picasa is planned for a later version. Btw. an important feature missing from all available programs is uploading to online print services. A list of all planned features is here: http://trac.yorba.org/report/16 An (incomplete) comparison of photo managers is on their wiki: http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/ShotwellFeatureComparison Solang also has exporting to webservices on the todo list, but they also have more extensive plans: acting as a front-end to them, as a photo manager for both your photos on the desktop and in the cloud. Cheers, Wouter -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Gthumb as default image viewer?
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Otto Kekäläineno...@sange.fi wrote: Well, for advanced uses like you and me F-Spot is fine, but for normal home users it is too complicated. Also it has one huge drawback: it saves all the pictures in a folder structure based on months and dates. This makes it really hard to browse a F-Spot archive from the filesystem or from any other image viewer. I know tagging is the superior way to file and sort your images, but the case for normal home (and business) users is that they still like to think about their image collections as folders. F-Spot sucks at browsing images in folders and to get all the benefits of F-Spot you need to import the images first into the collection. That is an extra step.. While it is certainly not ready yet to replace f-spot in karmic, it might be worthwhile to keep an eye on Solang. It is very similar to f-spot but doesn't require photos to be moved and it uses much less resources than f-spot. Additionally a nice benefit is that it plans to manage photos on webbased storages such as flickr and picasa as well, in line with ubuntu's plans to integrate the desktop with the web. Version 0.1 can be found in the Karmic repositories. Wouter -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Empty Create Document menu
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:21 PM, petr bug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps if we add item Add or Remove Templates... to the bottom of the list which would open Nautilus with the directory. That sounds like a good idea, but perhaps it could then give a list of templates for programs you have installed? So any program could add their template to the list and yet it wouldn't clutter up the menu. Also if that would be implemented, I would rather have the directory hidden (in ~/.config or something). It has always felt like a really odd thing in the user directory. Wouter. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: removing themes
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas, has there been any discussion about creating a standardised online repo of themes, with dynamic access from the appearance manager? Then we could highlight the standard GNOME themes there. Something like Gnome-Art Next Gen would be nice to include by default, allowing easy access to plenty of new wallpapers and themes, including the official gnome ones. A video showcasing it is at http://www.vimeo.com/1354516 Wouter. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: new spec drafted: support for IR remote controls - comments needed!
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Otto Kekäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I noticed that the IR remote control support in current Linux applications suck. Actually fixing the matter is quite easy, so I drafted a spec and a plan how to go about it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/IRRemoteControlSupport Comments? Fedora just implemented this for their upcoming release. You can probably reuse most of their work. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterLIRCSupport And perhaps there could even be a feature freeze exception to include gnome-lirc-properties in intrepid? It seems really useful. Wouter. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Proposal: include Brasero by default
Hello all, I originally posted this to ubuntu-devel-discuss, but I thought it might interest people on this list as well, so I decided to post my proposal here as well: I would like to propose including Brasero in the default Ubuntu installation. Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD's for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly. Brasero is actively being developed and is maintained in Ubuntu by one of its developers, Luis Medinas. Currently Ubuntu relies on nautilus-cd-burner and serpentine for cd/dvd burning. Both are nice and simple programs, but both N-c-b and serpentine have several limitations that Brasero does not have which are listed below: Nautilus cd burner: - Lack of multisession support! - Does not inhibit Gnome Power Manager from suspending while burning - Doesn't do on the fly burning (dvd to dvd or disk to dvd), severly limiting burning possibilities when low on disk space (a situation in which you might want to move files to cd/dvd) - Does not show the amount of space left - Does not show the progress while burning - Has no option to verify burned cd - Can't copy/write video DVDs - Has no option to erase cdrw's withouth burning new content to them Serpentine: - Doesn't do on the fly writing (mp3/ogg to wav conversion) - Doesn't detect the size of the inserted disc - Has several open bugs on program crashes, both on launchpad and in gnome bugzilla - Lacks audio track preview - Doesn't support cue files Additionally, Brasero has features such as automatic filtering for unwanted files, beagle file search (tracker support planned) and saving/loading of projects, allowing them to be burned later. It would be good to provide users one common interface to burn cd's. Brasero is already in the main repository and installed and tested by many users, so it should not be a problem to include it on the cd. Of the other distro's, xubuntu and opensuse already ship it. Therefore, I would like to propose including it by default in Hardy. Cheers, Wouter -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Making example-content more visible
On 2/20/06, Daniel Holbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apart from making the content fresher, more exciting and more fun, one problem remains: making example content more visible. At the moment it's installed into /usr/share/example-content - a place that my mother would never find. What can we do to make this better? Some proposals are obvious: * deploy a link on the desktop via /etc/skel? What about existing users? How about instead of deploying a link, just copying it to the users home directory? Have some directories like documents, photos, music in the users home folder each with two or three example files. Wouter -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
