Re: [darktable-devel] Policy as regards vendor-specific APIs

2014-04-03 Thread Benjamin Lefaudeux
ok thanks, I'll see where it goes. It would be for the 'Eye Tribe' eye tracker, 99$ and mostly mainstream, but you're right in that not so many people would benefit from it right now. I'll get back to this mailing list if I have something then. Best regards, ben On 3 April 2014 10:44, johannes ha

Re: [darktable-devel] Policy as regards vendor-specific APIs

2014-04-03 Thread johannes hanika
hi, that sounds like a very specialized setup, i doubt other users would profit from it. i would recommend trying that in a public branch on github, and let's see how much interest it spawns. i don't think we would merge special purpose code like that upstream. we couldn't even test it's working o

Re: [darktable-devel] Policy as regards vendor-specific APIs

2014-04-02 Thread Benjamin Lefaudeux
Hi Johannes, it would just be an option to tick so that the eye tracking device is used to change UI reactions (hide panels when you don't look at them for instance). My issue is that there's no standard yet as regards eye tracking APIs, so I would hook to one from a specific vendor (not on a drive

Re: [darktable-devel] Policy as regards vendor-specific APIs

2014-04-02 Thread johannes hanika
heya, not sure i understand the question. you're planning to write a module for some special hardware? including drivers? -jo On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Benjamin Lefaudeux < benjamin.lefaud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > congrats first for all the work you did on Darktable, awesom

[darktable-devel] Policy as regards vendor-specific APIs

2014-04-02 Thread Benjamin Lefaudeux
Hi everyone, congrats first for all the work you did on Darktable, awesome, it has been my RAW processing software of choice for some time now.. . I have a small question as regards your policy with respect to vendor specific APIs : I was planning on testing a UI modification in the field of eye-tr