René Rebe

Recently I sumbled over Adobe Lightroom - a still beta digital RAW image post-production suite. It’s GUI is truely remarkable - featuring the same “game based” interface design rules we wanted to implement for our audio software since some years now.

Even more remarkable is that about 40% of the code is written in LUA - respect! You can see a note about this in the copyright / acknowledge dialog and a there is a matching presentation from an Adobe employee about Experiences building a desktop application with Lua presented at a LUA workshop.

Today I sorted the photos that stacked up over the last years. Just deleting the unworthy ones and rotating the portrait images took 4 hours and left 1.9 GB of images in 1600 files which will show up in the photo gallery within the next days

Thanks to a quickly done kde servicemenu entries executing jpegtran for lossless JPEG rotation in the image context menu of Konqueror it was quite a pleasure. It is as simple as creating a ~/kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/rotateL.desktop with the content:


[Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=image/jpeg
Actions=rotateL

[Desktop Action rotateL]
Name=Rotate to the left (counter clockwise)
Icon=rotate_ccw
Exec=jpegtran -rotate 270 -outfile "%u" "%u"


Maybe something like this (including the variant for 90 degree) should be shipped with KDE by default ,-) Anyway it reminds me I should add support for lessless rotation to ExactImage.

So I dive into the shiny new world of blogging as well. Not because I want to be so wicked damn cool, but because my static HTML files and shell script generated photo galleries I maintain since about 1997 started to not feel right anymore. Publishing new photos was not just drag’n droping files for example in KDE’s Konqueror from a camera:// to a fish:// remote machine, but additionally running aging shell script in the right order - guess how that felt like in the 21st century …

Let’s see how comfortable I’ll feel with WordPress after some days of use ,-) …