[geeqie] Re: WG: Missing features: cropping images and filtering filenames
- From: Omari Stephens <xsdg@xxxxxxxx>
- To: geeqie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:46:36 +0000
On 06/20/2018 06:50 AM, R. Diez (Redacted sender rdiezmail-temp2 for
DMARC) wrote:
Hallo Colin Clark:
First of all, thanks for your answer.
I found it awkward to answer myself, because I did not get an e-mail. I had to
manually check the mailing list archive to see your message.
Howdy, rdiez
Unfortunately, freelists.org redacts your email address, so we can't
respond to you directly. I don't know why this is, or whether it's
configurable, but that's why you aren't seeing these responses directly.
The most expedient option is likely to join the list.
I use a bit of a hack to get around this.
[...]
Unfortunately, this is for another user with little computer expertise. Hacks
are not appropriate there. Furthermore, the user wants (demands!) UI comfort.
For myself, I just fire up Gimp. 8-)
At the end of the day, Geeqie is an image viewer. It is not an image
editor. Generic image editing features would incur a lot of baggage and
complexity that aren't otherwise relevant for Geeqie (for instance: What
output formats are supported? Is it possible to open as one format and
save as a different one? How are images internally represented? Can we
guarantee that image metadata makes it from one input format to a
different output format? If, say, we read a 16bpc PNG, or a 32bpc TIFF,
can we do appropriate bit depth conversions to write an 8bpc JPEG?)
One of the reasons why geeqie does what it does reasonably well
(although with plenty of room to improve, for certain) is that it
maintains a relatively focused scope: use built-in features to view
images, and allow script-based extension for other stuff.
[...]
I have vaguely thought about creating an add-on to
act as a front-end to the search page to do repeat searches,
and as you suggest, basic searches.
Please note that I was suggesting a small quick filter text field at the top of
the existing file list pane, and not about any search dialog box or search
functionality, simplified or not. A quick filter provides easy, instant
gratification 90% of the time.
One of geeqie's challenges is that the codebase isn't
super-well-organized. Your request _should_ be a fairly straightforward
task, but given how things are organized, it would likely take a fair
bit of work (I could be wrong, but that's my sense just thinking about
other changes I've done in geeqie)
A refactor would go a long way to restoring the flexibility to do things
like this quickly, but that refactor is also a lot of work. I've been
thinking about it, but haven't actually had the time to make much
progress. I'm sure the other geeqie devs are in a similar boat,
unfortunately.
I would not underestimate comfort features. Most people are not hackers and do
not want to switch to obviously better software if the old one is easy to use.
Understood. I think it bears mentioning that Colin has gone a long way
toward keeping some momentum in the project (thanks!), but there's more
work to be done than people and time to do it, so we have to prioritize
around not only what's useful/valuable, but also what is sustainable
given our minimal coding resources.
--xsdg
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