[Rawstudio-users] Rawstudio 1.0 release candidate 1

[Anders Kvist]

Olli Hänninen wrote:
>
> Hi Anders,
>
> Please see my answers in the middle of quoted text.
>
>         1) Quick export makes Rawstudio crash every time.
>
>     I can't make it crash with trunk and not with svn 1758, run
>     rawstudio from a terminal with 'gdb rawstudio' - when it crashes
>     type in 'bt' and send the output to us.
>
>
> 1.0rc1 does not crash on my computer anymore :-)
Great! :D
>
>         6) There are some phrases that are not included in the
>         pot-file. (See my earlier email under topic "Finnish
>         translation".)
>
>     Hm, where did you get the .pot file? The danish translation i made
>     have the mentioned keys.
>
>
> I downloaded it from http://www.rawstudio.org/translations.php. I 
> added those few phrases to my translation and sent it to the list few 
> minutes ago. Everything ok on this too.
>
>  
>
>         1) Thumbnails should be updated and processed so that all
>         changes to the image would result in changes to thumbnails
>         too. This is the major UI feature that divides Rawstudio from
>         the commercial products.
>
>     We've discussed this a lot because of the the A,B,C snapshots.
>     Which snapshot should the thumbnail be updated from?
>
>
>
> That is a good question. I kinda see A, B and C as priorities too. I 
> mean that I use B and C when trying different things, but I always 
> have the final settings in A. But wouldn't it be possible to have 
> updating thumbnail for all A, B and C? This would increase the space 
> the thumbnails take on the drive, for if it improves usability, it is 
> very ok with me. (Hard drives are cheap nowadays :-)
I think this is individual for each user. But I don't like the idea of a 
thumbnail for each of the settings. There should be only one and that 
one has 3 different settings... i don't really know a way to do this...
>
>         2) You should be able to rename the photos.
>
>     We've decided not to include those features, because we don't
>     wanna create a file manager, but concentrate on raw workflow...
>     That said, we'll still have to listen to our users and create
>     features that are wanted by the users :)
>
>
> I see renaming the photos as a vital part of the raw workflow. If I 
> can't rename photos in rawshooter, it is impossible (or at least 
> impracticable) to do it in any other way. This is because of the xml 
> files in the .rawstudio folder. If I wanted to rename the photos in 
> nautilus, I had to rename both the raw-file and the xml (and thumbnail 
> too). I suggest that by clicking the photo name below its thumbnail, 
> you could rename the photo (and rawstudio would naturally rename the 
> raw-file and the xml-file).
Let's take a look at this after 1.0 has settled :)
>
>         4) At the moment you can click a point on the photo to set it
>         as the white point. I am used to a feature mentioned in 3) and
>         therefore I keep on accidentally clicking the photo and am
>         losing my white balance settings all the time. :p I suggest
>         that this white balance function is set as a pipet/dropper
>         tool (meaning you first have to click a button or a tick box
>         before you can click the photo to set the white point).
>
>     Hehe, a lot does those accidently clicks... We've talked about
>     using CTRL-click to set WB instead. How about this?
>
>
> CTRL-click sounds very nice. Can hardly wait it :-)
Hehe :)
>
>
> You have made a huge job with Rawstudio. Once more, congratulations on 
> that. Nice to see that last few weeks have brought more and more 
> interest on Rawstudio and on its development.
Thanks thanks :) It's always nice to hear something like this...this 
keeps us going :)

/Anders Kvist