alex diavatis | July 21, 2012

Gnome Photos preview

This post was made with another stylesheet and it might be messed up!

Gnome Photos is another new Gnome App that doesn’t exist for 3.4 and I don’t know for sure if it would be ready for 3.6, but I guess it will. What is it? Well, it is a Photos browser similar to the (upcoming) Videos browser and Gnome Documents.

It can view (when ready!) local and cloud photos collections, access Media Servers and Attached Devices, and it will also feature a slide show ..and many more! 

 

This is the a mockup that shows how the things will be about to look like when is ready

And this is the current Gnome Photos as I compiled few minutes ago. It  can show only pictures from my Pictures directory for the time.  By the way you need Gnome > 3.5.3 to compile this, so do not try it in 3.4.

On the mockup Gnome Photos is dressed up with the black GTK theme while in Git is on whites same as Gnome Docs.

 

Gnome Photos Objectives

  • View local and online/cloud collections
  • View photos on attached devices
  • View photos on DLNA media servers
  • See new photos shared by friends
  • View full screen slideshows
  • Share photos (email, IM, ?)
  • Upload photos
  • Set as background
  • Select favorites
  • Very basic manipulation:

- Rotate
- Crop
- Enhance
- Remove/Delete
- Combine into an Album

  • Allow opening full featured editor for more advanced changes

Constraints

  • Not an editor
  • Not a management tool

 

If you want to learn more you better check @Gnome Photos Design

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  • http://www.facebook.com/bwat47 Brandon Watkins

    Why has gnome become obsessed with making ever app into a glorified file selection dialogue?

    • alex285

      It’s the proven best way to search and select. It works in full screen, works in every screen size. It’s nice. And is kinda standardized also, Web already uses it a lot. I like the fact that Web Technologies and interactions comes to Desktop applications.

      Also I don’t think Web and Desktop are two different things :)

  • Guest

    Awesome, the real star in this blog entry is the new “documents”, in my opinon. I tried it but with this new features it will maybe become usefull (if its not so slow on large databases like the old “documents”).
    The new shadow looks also nice (I think it is a alternative to the bounce back from smartphones?).
    But who is the tag (which is here labeld as “collection”) database saved (i would tag my data with the information of my old folder organisation with a program, you know documents out of my old computer science folder with computer science and so on).
    Photos looks nice, but like the actual “documents” not really “real life ready”.
    I can’t wait for the new document-centric paradigm behind Gnome (which isn’t here at the time (3.4), I think).

  • foobar

    “”"It turns to be black. I don’t know the way they choose the themes (white of black) in Gnome Apps, but it seems that all the browsers (Photos, Videos, Documents, Boxes) but Files (nautilus) will be black”"”

    Black is used for content viewer to avoid viusal distractions. (Videos, photos, …) That’s why Sushy (the quick viewer) is black but Nautilus is white.

    • alex285

      Thank you for make it clear!

  • http://ekd123.org/ Mike Manilone

    ok ok… gnome starts to do a lot of projects which are implemented much earlier. videos, and this “photos”, they _don’t_ manage videos and photos. I wonder why they don’t do so. If don’t, why list all of the videos and photos? JUST A SEARCH TOOL?!??!?!?

  • LorgnocOspYe

    alex285: It seems you are confused about the GNOME Documents design. The mockup in this article is not the latest design, but actually
    one of the earliest. The first version of GNOME Documents, released with GNOME 3.2, was based on this design. But the design patterns evolved from 3.2 to 3.4 and the left sidebar was discarded in favor of the search filters. That is why GNOME Documents from GNOME 3.4 has no sidebar.