On 26/05/11 17:51, Marcel Stimberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>> In order to make it possible, the SPIT would have to provide
>> events, lets's say "management events": pre-action, post-action,
>> where action is rating applied, flag set, tag added, tag removed,
>> etc.
>> 
>> Then plug-in developers could allow various kind of conditions and 
>> actions/processes to be defined and executed.
> 
> while I agree that such a general architecture would be useful, I do 
> not think it is the correct approach for this specific problem
> because the OP was looking for a batch-processing operation not
> something that is triggered automatically (you do not want to
> downsample/delete any data just by giving an incorrect rating).

Marcel,

This is a good point. I assume you mean batch processing
as processing of selection of photos in Shotwell,
but not feeding Shotwell with files from command-line, etc.

In my opinion, a good example of usable and powerful UI with built-in
tools is Flickr. It enables batch processing really well.
Perhaps new type of plugin's would be possible: batch processors
working on selection of files.

I'm glad Adam agrees with SPIT generalisation and events support, etc.
Though, it would be complex task, I think.
Simple batch processor type of plugin sounds as simpler
alternative of extending SPIT

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
Member of ACCU, http://accu.org
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