Shotwell objections and suggestions - Was: PhotoPrint

[Ralf Mardorf]

Maybe somebody else want's to chime in:

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/-/issues/5042
Some objections and suggestions

Hi,

I hope shotwell does improve, if photographers provide a few feature
requests.

What I dislike is that EXIF information is split into two separated
widgets. Please consider to drop the "Basic Information" widget in the
sidebar that contains the imports and merge it with the "Extended
Information" widget that is independent from the import sidebar.

I'm missing some EXIF information, as a starting point please at least
add the the 35 mm equivalent to the focal length. Please, also add the
lens info and/or model and/or ID.

For photographers the provided edit options are not very useful, it
would be nice if you provide a view option to disable the view of the
editing options, but to keep the zoom slider and the previous and next
photo buttons in the toolbar.

Sometimes several photos provide a detail I want to compare at the same
zoom factor, in the same position. For example the bird in this photo,
https://i.imgur.com/tr8PTpz.png . I cannot compare the photos, since
shotwell doesn't keep the zoom factor and position after clicking the
previous or the next photo button.

It would be nice to provide an option to allocate either zoom factor or
previous and next photo to the mouse wheel.

Those who want to print kind of contact sheets, it would be nice if the
file names would be available above or below the images, instead of
covering a part of the images.

Consider to provide a mailing list, e.g. at osuosl.org, since they
already host mailing list that were former hosted by GNOME, for example
https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users . Discord does
not provide a real mailing list feature. Btw. https://gitlab.gnome.org/
is also a PITA, other bug trackers are way more user-friendly

Regards, Ralf

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