Fwd: Raw image and imagemagick

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Hubert Chathi <uhoreg at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri 30 Apr 2010 10:47:33 AM EDT, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com>
> wrote:
>
>> on a freshly installed Debian squeeze desktop system, ufraw appears in the
>> GNOME application menu (this is because inkscape, which is installed by
>> default, recommends imagemagick which in turn recommends ufraw).
>
> [...]
>>
>> Since the imagemagick maintainers consider the capability to edit raw
>> images based on ufraw a valuable feature and thus decided to keep on
>> recommending it, I'd like to suggest two possible ways how to reduce this
>> negative desktop experience:
>> 1) This icon gets disabled by default in the
>> /usr/share/applications/ufraw.desktop file (either globally or only in
>> GNOME) or
>> 2) this icon gets disabled by default in GNOME via a black-list (thus
>> CCing pkg-gnome team).
>
> No.  Having it in the menu is valuable for those who do RAW processing.
>
> I'm not sure why ImageMagick is recommending a GUI tool.  It would be better
> for it to either use dcraw for its raw processing (which is a command-line
> tool), or if they need to use ufraw-batch, then it may be best to split up
> ufraw-batch from the ufraw package.

I believe we need only dcraw.

Thanks

Bastien
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