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Julien Catalano | 16 Nov 2005 23:18
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Booh, my pictures and me

Hello!

I am a new one in this mailing-list. My name is Julien, I come from
France but I work in the Netherlands.

I discovered booh via linuxfr.org website, and after a while, I
decided to dive in. I already had many contacts with Guillaume (gc)
about booh.

Indeed, I found some "bugs" in that piece of software. I am using booh 0.8.3

* First bug was a bit tricky but we found the reason: With accented
file name, sometimes booh crash with no reason. It is due to UTF-8 and
booh file name handling. gc has fixed it tonight. Perhaps he could
explain more...

* Another bug: it is impossible to delete sub-album directly. You have
to delete one by one each picture or video till the sub-album is
empty. It can be very long...
What I suggest for this one is to create an option to delete
sub-album. For example, just press [Del] on the sub-album in the tree
on the left and the sub-album is gone. Or even simpler, use the
"mouse-shortcut" 'click and go down' to delete sub-album in the main
tab.

* On the other hand, it is really easy to delete pictures but
impossible to restore them. If I delete a picture, I generate my html
files and save my booh project, it is then impossible to recover
"deleted" pictures. A simple option should be "restore all deleted
pictures/sub-album in this sub-album". More sophisticated is "show
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Guillaume Cottenceau | 17 Nov 2005 10:31
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Re: Booh, my pictures and me

> * First bug was a bit tricky but we found the reason: With accented
> file name, sometimes booh crash with no reason. It is due to UTF-8 and
> booh file name handling. gc has fixed it tonight. Perhaps he could
> explain more...

This will be fixed in upcoming 0.8.4. It was due to ruby's substring
functions not aware of the encoding of the string. Triggered by a
system with encoding in utf8.

> * Another bug: it is impossible to delete sub-album directly. You have
> to delete one by one each picture or video till the sub-album is
> empty. It can be very long...

You can select all images/videos from a sub-album by clicking on a
white part next to images, dragging the mouse pointers to draw a
"rectangle" of selection, as it can be done in many file explorers.

> What I suggest for this one is to create an option to delete
> sub-album. For example, just press [Del] on the sub-album in the tree
> on the left and the sub-album is gone. Or even simpler, use the
> "mouse-shortcut" 'click and go down' to delete sub-album in the main
> tab.

I will add this feature in the popup menu when right clicking on a
sub-album's name, in the tree on the left, but not in 0.8.4 (this
version only accepts bugfixes because localization has already been
started).

> * On the other hand, it is really easy to delete pictures but
> impossible to restore them. If I delete a picture, I generate my html
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dams | 17 Nov 2005 11:11
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Re: Booh, my pictures and me

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

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>>* Something I didn't like is the way booh crash: silently. You don't
>>even know it has crashed. I would prefer an error box telling it has
>>crashed (or convert or mencoder has) and why. If there are more than 1
>>crash, do not open multi-pop-up windows, but one with all errors and
>>warning with a scrollbar.
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>0.8.4 will present more "crash" information, but not in cases where
>processing is backgrounded (when you toggle contrast enhancement, when
>you specify an frame offset for videos..). I will have to think if/how
>I can do this.
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>

a simple way would be to log that you are calling such external program,
and check the return value. Usually they are correctly documented, so by
catching the return value, plus the STDERR, you should be able to
diagnose the situation

(well, my 2 cents :)
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Julien Catalano | 30 Nov 2005 23:30
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Feature wish: sort by EXIF date

Hello booh,

I just finish to upload my photo-album made by booh on my website, and
I have a wish for booh. I would like to be able to sort my pictures by
date instead of alphabetical order.

By date I mean EXIF time of shoot, I think it is the most accurate date.

That would be useful for an album with a mix of 2 digital cameras
pictures. Now the first camera pictures are displayed and then the
second, the same as a default file browser. A timeline display can be
more appropriate.

That's it. I enjoy my experience with booh and promote it to my friends.

By the way, how is version 0.8.4? And where can I access the CVS
repository (nothing is said on the website)?

Another time, congratulations!

Regards,

Julien
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Guillaume Cottenceau | 1 Dec 2005 12:09
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Re: Feature wish: sort by EXIF date

Hi Julien,

On 11/30/05, Julien Catalano <julien.catalano <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello booh,
>
> I just finish to upload my photo-album made by booh on my website, and

Can we have the URL?

> I have a wish for booh. I would like to be able to sort my pictures by
> date instead of alphabetical order.
>
> By date I mean EXIF time of shoot, I think it is the most accurate date.
>
> That would be useful for an album with a mix of 2 digital cameras
> pictures. Now the first camera pictures are displayed and then the
> second, the same as a default file browser. A timeline display can be
> more appropriate.

This is a good idea. I will do it after 0.8.4.

> That's it. I enjoy my experience with booh and promote it to my friends.

Nice :)

> By the way, how is version 0.8.4? And where can I access the CVS

I almost finished it yesterday evening. Probably this evening, at
latest this week-end.
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Julien Catalano | 1 Dec 2005 12:17
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Re: Feature wish: sort by EXIF date

On 12/1/05, Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I just finish to upload my photo-album made by booh on my website, and
>
> Can we have the URL?

Of course, http://julien.catalano.free.fr/Album/ (in french)

By the way I sent it to your private email address...

>
> > I have a wish for booh. I would like to be able to sort my pictures by
> > date instead of alphabetical order.
> >
> > By date I mean EXIF time of shoot, I think it is the most accurate date.
> >
>
> This is a good idea. I will do it after 0.8.4.

Great!!

>
> > repository (nothing is said on the website)?
>
> I use a local CVS repository on my machine :)
>
> Is a nightly snapshot available on the web enough?

I don't think I'll use the nightly snapshot, I prefer to test public
release. But nevertheless, it would be nice to follow the development
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Guillaume Cottenceau | 1 Dec 2005 12:21
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Re: Feature wish: sort by EXIF date

On 12/1/05, Julien Catalano <julien.catalano <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/05, Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just finish to upload my photo-album made by booh on my website, and
> >
> > Can we have the URL?
>
> Of course, http://julien.catalano.free.fr/Album/ (in french)

Oh! My screen is in 1280x1024, I'd have enjoyed the "large" size..

Too large on your web space? Too much generation time or bandwidth for upload?

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Julien Catalano | 1 Dec 2005 12:27
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Re: Feature wish: sort by EXIF date

On 12/1/05, Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oh! My screen is in 1280x1024, I'd have enjoyed the "large" size..
>
> Too large on your web space? Too much generation time or bandwidth for upload?

Too large for my web space indeed... Sorry :-( (Even my disk space was
too small for so many pictures/videos/...) Videos were all deleted...
Really too big!

For your information, my provider free.fr is allowing me 1GB, and with
that album, I spend more than 550MB, so big pics and videos can not
really be considered...

As soon as I have my own server, with large HD, don't worry, booh will
do his job again!
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Guillaume Cottenceau | 1 Dec 2005 23:16
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[ANN] released 0.8.4

Released 0.8.4.

    * better support for panoramas in thumbnails page

    * add password protection feature

    * [plouf and milka feature] add possibility to display "made
      with" markup at the bottom of pages

    * [warly feature] try to use hard links when creating an
      album including "original" size of images, or videos, to
      save diskspace

    * add ability to display EXIF data

    * become fully transitional xhtml compliant

    * add sbs theme by Erik Ramseth

              ****** PLEASE BE CAREFUL ********

I discovered that my algorithm to change directories/filenames in
destination directory in order to become "URL-safe" could produce
two identical filenames in destination directory from two
different filenames in source directory; the case is rare but
still can exist.

When you will open an existing album with booh (the GUI), the
program will immediately try to rename the files in destination
directory as much as possible to avoid re-generating the files.
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Guillaume Cottenceau | 1 Dec 2005 23:26
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Re: [ANN] released 0.8.4

Guillaume Cottenceau <gc4 'at' bluewin.ch> writes:

>               ****** PLEASE BE CAREFUL ********

Ah, I forgot.

While optimizing the sizes of thumbnails for panoramas, I
discovered that I should not specify 4/3 ratio for fullscreens,
but sizes more suitable to occupy the whole width available in
theme. This will benefit panorama images and non standard images
as well.

But the result is that, when you will regenerate an album with
0.8.4 from a previously generated album with 0.8.3 or before,
booh will need to regenerate all fullscreen images.

Don't be mad at me.. booh is only getting better! :)

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