Let me put a +1 to ticket #1110, send pictures via email: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1110.
I recently tried to help my 80-year old mother use her first ever digital camera. She wants to get the pictures where she can see them and share them with family and friends via email. I don't think flickr, picasa, or facebook are options for her. I started her off with Shotwell because I like the way it handles importing photos from the camera--much quicker and more sensible (to me) than F-spot. Once she had the pictures in Shotwell, though, she wanted to email them to her friends. Easy enough, I thought, and as I started doing it, I realized it was going to be way too complicated for her. I remembered that F-spot has a send-by-email function, so I fired that up and, indeed, it's a pretty good interface. The user can select a number of photos, go to File > Send by email (or something), and get prompted for resizing options (sensible options with the ability to specify dimensions manually, IIRC). Once that's set, her default email client (Thunderbird) opens a compose window with the attachments there. Thinking that was much easier for her, I thought maybe F-spot would be the photo manager for her. Unfortunately, as we practiced, the attachments stopped working; Thunderbird's compose window came up with My+Photos in the subject line but no attachments. Ugh. So, all this stuff is on hold until I can find something that works. OK, I realize 80-year olds are probably not the target market for Shotwell, but I'm sure ease of emailing would be a feature others might appreciate ;). I'm loving 0.7, thanks for the great work! Todd On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > Shotwell friends and fans, > > now that 0.7 is out the door we're beginning development of Shotwell > 0.8, tentatively scheduled for release in November. The following > features are our top priorities for 0.8: > > - importing/playing videos (ticket #855 at http://trac.yorba.org/report/16 > ) > - optionally storing tags and other metadata in photo files at all times > (#1290) > - automatically refreshing thumbnails, tags and other metadata when > photos have been modified externally (#2476) > - automatically importing files which have been added to the library > directory (#2478) > - allowing the user to configure the naming pattern for directories > where imported photos are placed (#1597) > - a No Event page that shows all photos which belong to no event > (typically because they have no EXIF date) (#1712) > > Some of these are features which didn't quite make 0.7. Of course, we > hope to implement additional features as time permits. I've added this > list to the Development section on the Shotwell wiki page > (http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell) and we'll keep it up to date there > as the feature set for this release evolves. Feedback is welcome, as > always! > > adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
