Re: [Ginp-developers] Next Release...

[Doug C. <do...@cu...>]

"
What ginp is not?
ginp = Ginp Is Not a Picture manager
ginp = Ginp Is Not gimP <http://www.gimp.org>

The management of the files is NOT part of the application because there 
are better tools for copying renaming and moving files.
Editing the photos is NOT part of the application because there are 
better tools for editing images.
"

I do not want to program a image resizer / Cropper / alien glower.... So 
my idea was to use the file system and Photoshop or GIMP or 
............  to edit the images and the ginp presents the collection 
for easy browsing, and sharing, searching...... 

The thumbnailing is bad quality because it uses the standard java libary 
which does relitively hi compression.  We could put in the ToDos the 
feature "confguration option for image quality" so users can say high 
quality thumbs are important.  We could also use the GIMP for alien glow 
stuff but I started the project with the concept of do well what you can 
do well with the web application and let desktop software do what it 
does well.  This can change but I still think it is not a bad brief.

If someone coments about the software I am enklined to take it seriously 
(and give it a higher priority) because they are real users who can 
stand back and see what the real weeknesses are, therefore I am open to 
a solution but the cool thing about the ginp is it is very platform 
indepentant and simple.  If we rely on giMp then we start to end up like 
a lot of other *nix software which is a patchwork of stuff that is I 
nightmare to plug together.  (and windows users will just not get)

Therfore I would say yes high quality thumbs option (implamented with 
better use of standard library or another lib) and encourage users to 
use their favourite photo editor on the files to modify them as they 
like and the ginp rethumbs if the file modiy date is newer than the 
thumb.  This is a strategy that aims to get the best from both worlds.

An power ginp user can already put copyright messages on a file system 
of images with a script do we really need to program an interface for 
then to do this with a web application.  It could be cool but a lot of work.

That is my thoughts on this but I try to be open to ideas from others, 
because sometimes they are right like the db thing.  So feel free to 
rethink this strategy and comment...

All the best,

Doug

Justin wrote:

>
> Doug,
>
>     One thing that we may want to do, as far as features go, that we 
> may not be able to do anything about is that I had a friend complain 
> that the image quality of the thumbnailing could use some work to make 
> it as good as professional image manipulation program.  Is there 
> another library we could use that does anti-aliasing on thumbs?  It's 
> not a super-high priority, as all the other gallery programs aren't 
> much better, it's just something for both of us to keep an eye on.  
> Perhaps on Linux or even Windows we could have an option to let the 
> GIMP (How Ironic! Ginp using the GIMP) do the thumbnail processing or 
> do some kind of custom script-fu (Yes Gimp's scripting system is 
> called Script-Fu) to process the images?  That way you could put 
> copyright or other messages automatically on your thumbs and images or 
> add alien glow borders...
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
> Doug Culnane wrote:
>
>> I think all known issues are covered in the current release so it is 
>> good quality software.  It does not have many features, but it does 
>> what it does and does it well.
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