photostory team mailing list archive

[Josh Brown <joshbrown15@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great work, I think we're just about ready to release a new version.
However I believe bug #618737 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618737>
still needs further consideration; previous conversation below.

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On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:23 +0100, Joel Auterson wrote:
> Ah, I see. I will look into it.

On 28 Oct 2010 15:09, "Josh Brown" <joshbrown15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I didn't mean use the creation date or modification date, I meant use
> the filename itself (e.g: 2010-10-28.png, 2010-10-21.png, etc).

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:59 +0100, Joel Auterson wrote:
> The problem I can see with this is that if the photo is modified by
> another program it will have the wrong date, and therefore won't show
> up correctly within Photostory.

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:50 +0100, Josh Brown wrote:
> The pickling makes both the code and the storage itself more
> complicated. The code being complicated is a small problem. The
> storage
> itself being complicated, however, is a BIG problem; a complicated
> storage system is bad for integration and sustainability. It is VITAL
> that the storage system is as simple as possible. 

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:02 +0100, Joel Auterson wrote:
> The pickling feature is necessary. The feature that compiles the
> photos into a video requires them to be in a numbered series,
> therefore we use a dictionary to save the dates and numbers together.
> Dictionaries cannot be stored in a text file so we use a pickle
> database.
> 
> The picking does not actually create a problem, it just makes the code
> more complex.
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Also, I'm having some trouble with keys at the moment so I can't do
anything right now but I am currently trying to resolve these issues and
will try to sort out the branches as soon as possible (it is a simple
case of merging <code> into <pkg>, then merging <pkg> into <deb>).

Sorry for this delay.


On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 21:08 +0000, Joel Auterson wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Sorry I've been a bit quiet lately. We've added the FPS slider, file
> choosing dialog, delete button and countdown. Do you think this is
> enough to build the next version?
> 
> I'm not sure how it works with Josh's new setup though.
> 
> Cheers!