Phatch: New Photo Batch Processor calling for testers

[stani]

It would be nice if I could apply actions to only certain photos inside a folder.

Also it would be nice if I could see small thumbnails of photos inside a folder and then select individual photos in order to apply an action.

Rationale:

Lets imagine I have 100 photos in a folder. At the moment in phatch I would have to move all the photos that I want rotated 90 degrees to a new folder to apply the Transpose action.

Lets say I also have some photos that need to be resized and others that need to be inverted, I have to select those that need to be resized and place them in a new folder and do the same for those that need to be inverted.

But if I would see thumbnails from inside phatch and if I would apply actions by selecting images then i could speed up the process.

Of course I have this kind of functionality in my mind too. But first I want to tackle:
- lazyness: when you are batching thousands of files (as I do some times), it would be nice that you can quit phatch and resume later without having to restart from the beginning.
- internationalisation: allow users to translate phatch in their local language (through e.g. rosetta)

However I recognize that selecting individual files is important, so i might provide a temporary solution with a file select dialog or drag&drop. In longer term I have a special UI in it for my mind.

Stani

[stani]

It would be nice if I could apply actions to only certain photos inside a folder.

I've uploaded a temporary solution as promised with a file select dialog box. You can not see all the images as thumbnails at the same time (at least not in Gnome, but maybe in KDE it is possible). However by Ctrl clicking you can select individual images and have a preview for the last clicked image. Later I'll work on a real thumbnail pane.

[durand]

Love your program, i've filed 2 bugs.

[PartisanEntity]

I've uploaded a temporary solution as promised with a file select dialog box. You can not see all the images as thumbnails at the same time (at least not in Gnome, but maybe in KDE it is possible). However by Ctrl clicking you can select individual images and have a preview for the last clicked image. Later I'll work on a real thumbnail pane.

Very nice stani thanks.

[stani]

Love your program,

Spread the word wherever you can!

i've filed 2 bugs.

Thanks for reporting, they are both fixed.

[stani]

I've added a new feature: drag and drop. This (almost) takes away the need to implement a thumbnail manager.

For more info and screenshots, read my second post of this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2796343#2

[durand]

Cool

[PartisanEntity]

I am not quite sure how the droplet feature is supposed to work, I have posted a question concerning it:
https://answers.launchpad.net/phatch/+question/7991

[stani]

I am not quite sure how the droplet feature is supposed to work, I have posted a question concerning it:
https://answers.launchpad.net/phatch/+question/7991

I've fixed it. Just drag & drop any amount of pictures from nautilus, f-spot, konqueror, ... and it will batch process these photos.

[PartisanEntity]

I've fixed it. Just drag & drop any amount of pictures from nautilus, f-spot, konqueror, ... and it will batch process these photos.

I noticed thanks, but I was a little busy the past week, I can confirm though that the droplet is working now, a great feature.

The translation into German is progressing too