Fwd: Raw image and imagemagick

Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bastien at gmail.com
Thu May 20 15:59:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

ufraw-batch will be better suited for pur needs. Could you please do the split ?

Regards



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