[Rawstudio-dev] image display quality

[Anders Brander]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 00:00 +0200, Martin Christensen wrote:
> Anders> I'm a bit curious thou, which functionality would you like see
> Anders> implemented in a CLI interface?
> Only the ability to batch process given files based on their current
> settings. For what I want to do, I would just want to manipulate the XML
> settings files for my target image directly and then have Rawstudio
> process the image based on those settings.

If you're manipulating XML, then you could add your images to
~/.rawstudio/batch-queue.xml - then you would only have to press start
after starting Rawstudio. It's not CLI, but I think it's the best we can
do.

> Throw in the ability to batch process an entire folder, and preferably
> only the files of a given priority in that folder, now that you're at
> it; I sorely miss that sometimes. I'd like the ability to put a remote
> machine to work without being bound by a low bandwidth or low latency
> network connection.

I'm sorry, but I don't think you'll be able to do that in the near
future. Rawstudio really needs an X server.

> While we're on the topic of batch processing, when can we expect to see
> Rawstudio take advantage of multiple cores? Batch processing should
> be trivial to do in parallel. Indeed, even the interactive stuff could
> probably get an almost linear performance boost from adding more
> threads, but it'd probably be a lot harder to implement. Personally,
> though, I'd much rather see it in batch processing anyway.

Current development tree is "very" multithreaded. Both interactive,
background tasks and batch processing. Expect version 2.0 to take
advantage of multiple cores/cpu's.

> Anders> Would a D-Bus interface do?
> I doubt it, but I really couldn't say. I'm a systems guy, and my
> programmer's toolbox reflects that. I don't know more about D-Bus than
> what would fit in a tabloid headline.

Ok.

/Anders Brander