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diff --git a/dimbola.com/wishlist.mdwn b/dimbola.com/wishlist.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7567480 --- /dev/null +++ b/dimbola.com/wishlist.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +[[!meta title="wishlist for Dimbola"]] + +This page lists wishes for new stuff to add to Dimbola. +See also [[problems]] page. + +Done in bzr, but not in a release yet +------------------------------------- + +* Allow user to remove photos from database and optionally from disk as well. + + +Planned for the next release +---------------------------- + +* Dimbola should write (and rotate) a log file that could be added + to bug reports easily. +* Add date of import. This could be used for an iPhoto-like "list of + imports" view. Perhaps a "import id" as well? + + +Website +------- + +* Website wants to be loved by a web designer. **Help needed.** +* Make a feedback form for each release, using ikiwiki polling features. + + +Importing photos +---------------- + +* Importing should detect duplicate photos and optionally not add them. +* Maybe importing should add photos really fast, and then add thumbnails, + previews in the background? +* When importing images to database, the folders with the new images + should perhaps be selected so the images are visible immediately. +* Import should optionally be recursive: everything in subdirectories + should be imported as well. +* Add all exif fields into database, not just selected ones. Let user see a predefined set, + all of them, or a user-defined set (multiple user-defined sets?). Add + way for user to re-scan all files for Exif headers (useful for then (py)exiv2 + gets new features?). + +Thumbnail grid +-------------- + +* Thumbnails should have some basic metadata displayed: stars for ratings, + at the very least. +* Thumbnail grid should allow selecting by painting with the mouse. +* Thumbnail grid shows images in semi-random order (photoid). Order by mtime, if nothing else. + Ideally user should be able to choose from different orderings, such as + Exif timestamp, camera photo serial number, or file mtime. + +Tag and tag management +---------------------- + +* Tag tree should allow showing all tags (expand all trees), only top level + tags (close all trees), or close everything except a single tree. +* Photo's tag list: should let user select whether to show only tags + explicitly added, or also their parents (and aliases if those are added). +* Should be able to add add multiple tags to multiple photos at a time with drag-and-drop. + +Exporting photos +---------------- + +* Add tags, exif to exported photos (jpegs, originals). + +Editing with the GIMP +--------------------- + +* When editing with gimp, can we export a .xcf? Or have gimp do raw conversion? + +Code reactoring +--------------- + +* When grid.photoids gets set, it should automatically trigger loading of thumbnails + from database, and also shouldn't forget thumbnails that are in the new value of + photoids. +* remove_from_menu should be accompanied by method that just removes all menu entries + added by that plugin. + +New features +------------ + +* Preview sizes should perhaps be user-configurable. +* Searching based on Exif headers would be good. ("Find all photos taken + with this camera and that lense on this time of day.") +* It should be easy to copy tags from one photo to another. +* Folders, tags (in tag tree), and grid should display photo counts. +* Remember some settings across restarts, such as size of thumbnails. +* Undo/redo: adding, renaming, removing tags in tag tree; adding, removing + tags to photos; rotate; ratings; ... +* Tags should perhaps have aliases, flags (export with photo, export when + sharing tag lists). See also <http://blog.liw.fi/posts/dimbola-tag-system/>. +* Search tags in tag tree. Add a search box at the top. +* Should handle the case when photos move in the filesystem: have a way to + search for and reconnect with photos after they've moved. (Might happen + 'cause they're on an external disk and the mount point changes.) Store + checksum, size of original files and use that to find the photos if they + move. +* Would be nice to handle offline images properly: indicate when they're + not there, and warn (not crash) when doing things that would require + them. +* Would be nice to have an icon for Dimbola. **Help wanted.** +* Add the functionality of dimbola-copy to dimbola-gtk. +* A performance stress tester for the database would be good, so we know + how big a photo set it can handle. +* Support IPTC tags. +* Make it possible to have "presets" of tags and other metadata that get + added to images when they're imported, or later. +* Background jobs should estimate remaining time. +* Smart collections or saved searches, a la Lightroom. +* Collections or manually created virtual folders, a la Lightroom. +* Should use unicode only in the database, and not allow any other kind + of text. +* Synchronization between Dimbola databases would be really cool. +* Add support for arbitrary key/value pairs as metadata? +* Dimbola should have File/New, File/Open, File/Close. Not File/Save, since + all changes are saved immediately and implicitly, but perhaps + File/Save as. +* Need to add i18n and l10n. +* .dimbola files need a MIME type of their own, so double-clicking on them + will open them up in Dimbola without hassle. But not all Sqlite files! +* Verify checksums of photos, at opportune moments. Also, a background job to + verify checksums of selected photos, or all photos. +* Export metadata to photos (not doable for RAW images, mostly) or XMP files. + Either manually, or automatically for each change. +* Large thumbnail or small preview of the selected photo, a la Lightroom. +* Film strip to show all photos on the grid, for non-grid views to show context. +* View two photos at a time to compare them. +* Survey mode: show all selected photos, then allow user to deselect + and make the remaining thumbs bigger (as big as they can be while + showing everything). does this emphasize "find faults" rather than "find good stuff"? + (see [Carl Weese on editing](http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/10/editing-a-large-set-of-digital-captures.html) + and [followup](http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/10/zen-slap.html), + both at [The Online Photographer blog](http://theonlinephotographer.com/)) +* Make a PDF, video file, and web slideshow of selected photos. +* A "previous import" collection, or perhaps a way to show all imports as folders. +* When no photo is selected, say so in the photo info and other sidebar sections, rather + than just making them insensitive. This would provide a hint to the user what the + reason for the insensitivity is. +* Do some database stress testing: add logging of what requests are done to the db.py module, + then make a dummy database that is very large, and do the requests on that many times. + Does it work? What's slow? Memory usage? + +Definitely not until after 1.0 +------------------------------ + +* Some RAW processing support would be good. (Set parameters for dcraw + when it is run.) +* Support geo stuff: add location tags from GPS traces (match on timestamps), + find by location, perhaps show and search on maps. +* A plugin to export selected photos as a PDF formatted for printing as a + book would be nice. |