In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Various work across Plasma, including improved applet handles with monochrome icons, work on the Weather Plasmoid and the start of an extender-based notification applet. Continued development in PowerDevil, including support for suspend. Long-standing "slow deletion of many files" bug is finally fixed. A System Settings module for choosing the default file manager. Basic implementation of red eye reduction in Gwenview. A generator for G3/G4 fax documents in Okular. Support for filter plugins in Kst. More work on code completion in KDevelop 4. Start of a D-Bus interface in Lokalize. First working implementation of KMenuEdit global shortcuts. Work on supporting different resources in the Akonadi OpenSync plugin. The return of Ark context-menu actions. Liechtenstein, Oman, and San-Marino maps in KGeography. Previews of slide transition effects in KPresenter now happen directly on the affected slide. A KFormula widget is extracted from KOffice and moved into kdelibs for use in other KDE applications. Work on porting Keep, a backup utility, to KDE 4. NEPOMUK query libraries move from kdereview to kdebase/workspace, with the search KIO slave moving into kdereview. A KDE 4 port of KnowIt, a note taking application, is imported into KDE SVN. Eigen 2.0 Beta 1 is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.
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First I wanted to say again that Gwenview is excellent work (and everybody knows that I am a hard grader :-D).
There is the question of the feature set of different application. Specifically how much overlap there should be between a viewer and a paint application. Apparently, it has already been decided that a viewer should also be able to modify and save images. I'm not sure about this, but it is probably much more convenient than opening them in KolorPaint to make minor changes.
I read in the Gwenview blurb:
> Gwenview does not try to replace your favorite image editor, so it only
> features the most simple image manipulations: rotation and mirroring.
Now we have red eye reduction. Which seems to contradict that. I would think that this would be better in a photo viewing application. Or, is GwenView going to be the photoviewing application? Which is OK with me.
Someone suggested to me that we port KuickShow to KDE4. IIUC, the reason to do this would be that it has features that GwenView doesn't. Anybody with thoughts on this, please tell me what you think.
What I think is that KuichShow has:
Brightness
Contrast
Gamma
which are currently available in KolorPaint but not GwenView. I find these necessary when viewing images on the web. If these were available in GwenView, I would see no reason to port KuickShow.
I was also considering the way that GwenView (and other KDE apps) "import" RAW files. They don't actually import them but rather convert them to 8 bits per color using the camera's white balance setting. Using RAW this way tends to confirm what I think about many users just wanting a lossless compression format. Perhaps a Bayer CFA format can be added to JPEG2000. But the immediate concern is white balance. If we are going to convert RAW images this way, we also need:
White Balance.
and it needs to be properly calibrated in DecaMireds.
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