From: Pablo d. <Pab...@we...> - 2007-01-26 23:59:55
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Hi Erik, > > Erik> Not so in hugin: I had a discussion with you about the control = point=20 > > Erik> editor some years (!) ago, and it hadn't changed much. It is=20 > > Erik> virtually unusable for special problems (and manual control poi= nt=20 > > Erik> placement is only necessary for special problems).=20 > >=20 > > Again, it is commercial motivation, not the GPL. Erik, I remember meeting you at the stuttgart meeting 2004. Back then hugin was quite an infant. However, I don't see for which problems hugin is virtually unuseable. Please help me remember. > You name it - exactly what I meant. It is commercial motivation and=20 > it is the reason why I get what I want. My suspicion is that Pablo=20 > mostly implements what he is interested in - not primarily what is=20 > required by the users. This is his good right, since he has no=20 > commercial benefit. True. I've started hugin because i wanted a tool on linux and I am interested in the technical side more than with providing ultra smooth GUIs. Currently I have reached a point where the hugin base is stable enought for some new innovations on the technical side, which I hope you might find interesting. > But this means, that anyone who needs a special=20 > feature or a simplified workflow has to wait until Pablo is in good=20 > mood to implement it. I feel that the "is in good mood" comment is a bit unfair, because the main problem is not my unstable mood but the time I have to work on hugin. Or find someone else to implement it. Hugin is opensource, after all. > Helmut's motivation was different. I think he=20 > ever had commercial use in mind and hence he had nothing against=20 > direct linking of pano12. I haven't witnessed the birth of panotools, but the proj-imim mailinglist suggests that it all started as a project at the University of applied sci= ences Furtwangen and not as a hobby of Helmut. Which is quite different from hugin. > It boils down to this situation: There is hugin which has evolved=20 > very good but has by far not the user-friendliness of PTGui. And=20 > there are several command line programs which are hard to use (who=20 > did ever code a PTStitcher script=3F) Then panotools will be reduced to=20 > the stitching engine of hugin and the other GUI developers will go=20 > their own way. And hugin - see above - apparently is a just-for-fun=20 > project... I'm sorry that hugin doesn't fit your needs. You are free to ignore it, or work constructively by providing real suggestions instead of just discarting it as a just for fun project. I didn't mean to offend anyone, in case it sounds a bit harsh. ciao Pablo =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsst=E4rkeren E-Mail-Postfach! =09 Mehr Infos unter http://freemail.web.de/home/landingpad/=3Fmc=3D021131 |