[haiku-commits] Re: r39105 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/showimage

Am 24.10.2010 22:22, schrieb Axel Dörfler:

Citi Boy<citi324@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
[editing images in ShowImage]

This is actually extremely useful to create quick and dirty mockups,
such as when you compose screenshots combining various image files (as
a whole or parts of them). It makes for a great DnD demo too. Perhaps
this feature could be enabled using a key modifier? That way it
remains available but in an unobstrusive kind of way.


The point is not only obstrusiveness, but also simply wrongly placed 
functionality. While it might be handy to play mp3s from within Tracker, it's 
functionality that doesn't belong there. There are apps who are designed to do 
that, and they are *so* much better at it than ShowImage.
Please just use one of them. One day we'll even have real package management, 
but I don't think it's too much to ask to download an install an additional 
application. The OS cannot and should not deliver any possible piece of 
software. Even Linux distributors begin to understand that, and it's not hard 
to imagine that there isn't a way that pleases anyone.

Jonas Sundström<jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

WonderBrush seems capable enough. Perhaps its interface can be
simplified, somehow, but I can understand if you don't want to
dumb it down, Stephan, with all the work you've put into it.


Don't underestimate your target audience. The software should not be dumb, it 
should only keep easy things simple, and make hard things possible :-)
WonderBrush is based on concepts you should understand before you can use it 
easily, that's true, but you can always use ArtPaint or any such application if 
you prefer. In any case, you can use WonderBrush to edit screenshots perfectly, 
and there is definitely no need to add an inferior interface to another app 
that happens to be able to show images.


What was outlined already works rather simply in WonderBrush:

 * It can use drag & drop for importing images.
 * You can drop while holding shift to import into the current document.
* Cropping is extremely easy, the icon for this tool is a scissor, as common in many other apps. The usage is completely intuitive from the point of switching to this tool. * Blanking out areas of screenshots is pretty easy, once you figure out what icon is the rectangle tool. (The icons should be improved to be more what casual users expect.)
In addition to ShowImage, you can create shapes like circles to highlight something in the screenshot. You can make arrows to visualize some action. You can use a blur filter to use more fancy blanking out of areas...
In comparison, what you could do before in ShowImage was not only very limited, but also cumbersome, since you could not modify a selection rectangle after you have made it. That alone completely ruined it. 

Best regards,
-Stephan

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