On Wed, Nov 25, 2015, 4:18 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org>
wrote:
On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 17:45 -0300, Bastián Díaz wrote:
I also support Gnome core apps, yet Photos not in a stage of
development
that will be a replacement for Shotwell, so I think now Shotwell,
must
be replaced by Gthumb until Photos will match in functionalities.
Photos will never match Shotwell in functionality. It's only a photo
viewer and organizer: that's it. Maybe it will grow support for light
touch-ups like red eye correction, but it will never be an advanced
tool like Shotwell or gThumb. So no point in waiting for this, it won't
happen! :)
Personally, I don't think we need advanced photo editing software as
part of the core OS.
None of the proposed tools provide advanced editing capabilities. At most,
they provide a very, very little amount of functionality that let you
adjust red eye, levels, cropping/scaling/rotation, exposure adjustment, and
the like.
Recently I've had a chance to use a Mac extensively and have been amazed at
how much more sophisticated it has been. From the theme (it looks
professional), to window management (pins full screen Windows to top of
screen during expose, let's you drag and drop widows together in expose so
the wm associates them), to system resources management (sooooo much
nicer), to the apps (Photo has the following functionality: enhance,
rotate, crop, filters (Instagram-like), exposure adjustment, levels, black
and white, retouch, red eye), to automator (just brilliant, and would be
hugely useful for our target users).
Using gegl will help with a lot of this as we can bring in the relevant
functionality from gimp, and get non-destructive editing to boot.
Best/Liam