Nice one! - coincidence that this announcement is made on 1 April? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
Still it really is on the blog so I guess it must be true...?!?! ;-) On 1 April 2012 08:55, Eric Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > [SAN FRANCISCO] Yorba announced today that Shotwell, their flagship photo > organizer software, will become a lossless-only photo manager with the > upcoming release of version 0.13. > > Lossless-only means support for legacy image formats such as JPEG will be > dropped, a forward-looking move Yorba founder Adam Dingle praised as > “position[ing] Shotwell a generation ahead of competing photo management > solutions.” > > Upon installation, Shotwell 0.13 will upconvert the user’s existing JPEG > image files to the lossless DNG format. > > Users requiring additional space for their upconverted photos will be > directed to a site where they may purchase a new hard drive. A percentage > of proceeds from these purchases will fund Shotwell development. > > Yorba is confident it’s a positive step for photo management. > > “Think of it this way,” said Shotwell lead developer Lucas Beeler, “If I > bought a four terabyte hard drive but only used two terabytes, I’d be > wasting half the drive. Free space equals wasted money, which means > Shotwell 0.13 users will get more out of their computers than they did with > Shotwell 0.12.” > > As Yorba’s Jim Nelson wrote on a blog post, “As a Gnome application, our > goal is simplicity. Dropping support for legacy formats such as JPEG is one > step toward that goal.” > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
