Re: Documentation is available

fan-tas-tic, terry!

the only thing that immediately jumps at me
is to remove urgently all references to my personal email :)
(i hate getting my email address into spam lists.)

also, note that the official cthumb list is sourceforge.
i am waiting a while to switch off the one in my server.

Terry Gliedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please find problems and/or make improvements and send them to me (just
> save the file, edit it and send it to me). I'll sort out the changes
> easily enough.  At some point, Carlos, you can snatch the files (or
> better, ask me for a TGZ file) and then integrate it into a release of
> cthumb.

most definitely. could you send the whole batch in a tgz so that
i don't miss anything?

> Myself, I'd integrate this HTML somewhere into the sourceforge web site
> and change the man page to point to it.  You can distribute it, but I
> think it's probably most useful for someone to just get there via
> his/her browser -- but that's your call really.

i agree, this is very useful online. but it also should be distributed in
the source.

> This clearly uses the stuff I know about and use. There are things in
> the code I'd never heard of. I keep forgetting how to use cthumb, so
> this is as much for me as anyone else :-)  I'd appreciate hearing from
> people who know about something that is wrong or missing.

same here. there are many features, some neat, that i hardly ever use.

making albums is still painful. let me diverge a bit here ...
i have a _ton_ of pictures to integrate into my albums.
i have little time to put even the captions, so they stay album-less
in my hard drive. which is a pain because they never make it online
for friends and family. i was thinking about why that is the case.
there are two reasons:

   - too many manual steps from camera to album (online or cdrom)
     - i like to load them with the gimp and save them right back,
       sometimes i apply some color level enhancement so that they
       look better. but i really do it for the disk savings.
   - then i have to generate the album and put the captions.
     this is a pain. i don't see any way to speed this up via some
     sort of automation. maybe some super-slick gui to surf the
     pictures as one types the captions. voice recognition would be
     the fastest, but still.

sorry, a late night rambling.

thanks for taking the initiative terry!

-c


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