Plans for the next generation kickassing Cheese

Meeting log: cheese-threezero-meeting-log.txt

Use cases

• John wants to take a picture to use as an avatar in various applications/services
• Gil wants to send a picture of her new haircut to her boyfriend
• Daniel is a gtk developer and wants to build a new ui to take pictures when someone steps into the view of his camera
• Seif is hosting a big party and wants to take funny pictures every 10 minutes to show his friends afterwards that his parties rock!
• John is recording an interview he then publishes on youtube

Requirements

• take pictures
• take videos
• apply effects to pictures / videos
• take burst mode pictures (every x hours/minutes/seconds)
• crop pictures in live mode
• show already taken pictures in cheese itself
• crop old pictures
• post a picture/video on facebook/twitter/whatever
• sendto friends per email/im
• motion detection?
• live preview effects

Cheese will be split up in to 2 parts:

libcheese

• Proposed language: C
• Purpose:

  • Creating and managing cameras using CameraBin

  • Applying effects
  • Application logic related to taking photos, burst photos and videos

libcheese-gtk

• Proposed language: vala
• Bunch of widgets, which can be used by applications like GDM, gnome-about-me, empathy etc.

cheese-ui

• Proposed language: vala
• main user interface for cheese, using the widgets proposed by libcheese-gtk

ideas

• view taken pictures in the same view as the preview (with small preview window in the corner - see also: sugar webcam activity)
• crop pictures in a easy way (only rectangle) (Gthumb has an easy to use cropping dialog)
  • crop live preview (clutter?)
  • crop taken pictures