Purity of Essence
I spent some time this weekend getting Drag and Drop (DnD) working in F-Spot. It isn’t finished but basic DnD now works in the icon list. This adds a surprising amount of functionality, for instance now you can drag Images to the gimp toolbar to edit them, drag them to gnome-terminal to get the filnames, or drag them to nautilus to burn a cd. Many of these task will have more direct support inside F-Spot eventually, but for now the DnD adds a lot.
While I was busy dragging images all around the desktop I dropped one onto the face icon in the Evolution contact editor. It appears the addressbook needs to be more careful about resizing images it receives. A 3.1MB jpeg brings evoluton to a grinding halt as
it gets passed back and forth to evolution-data-server. This is a pretty common situation with 1.5, lots of promising new features but most still need polish.
Taking a step back
My bithday came and went with no new insight or loss of life. One of the presents I received was a new USB Wacom tablet. The new one is small enough to carry around with my laptop which means I may actually find time to do some more computer related artwork.
The monkey above is the first work I’ve done in a while and I’m definitely feeling rusty. On a side note restarting the X server each time I plug in the tablet is a constant reminder of how far we still are from Utopia.