[haiku-commits] Re: r40588 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/showimage
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:36:04 +0100
Hi,
Am 21.02.2011 20:29, schrieb Clemens:
In general I like toolbars and I really like the fullscreen toolbar
idea. My point for a image viewer is that images in general tends to be
large and you want to loose a minimum of details when drawing them in a
smaller frame. If you work with multiple images beside of each other all
space is needed. I think it just neat and simple to having not much more
than a window frame containing the image.
I don't agree. There are two use cases. One is where you want to see the
image as big as possible. This use case is covered by the full screen
mode. In windowed mode, you usually want to see other things as well,
like the Tracker folder, the e-mail to drop it into, or another image as
you say. Viewing the image as large as possible is less important, as
long as you can clearly recognize the image and its contents. There are
barely any images where there are tiny details and showing a tool bar or
not makes any difference with regards to being able to distinguish these
details. If that is really a problem, you can zoom the image into the
part with the details. More easily so with the help of the zoom buttons
in the tool bar perhaps, at least a first time user will see immediately
that ShowImage supports zooming. And having buttons for original size or
zoom-to-fit is more convenient and direct than going into the menu.
> The main problem at the moment
is that the shortcuts to go to the next/prev image are not intuitive and
the menu is a bit inconvenient for that. A toolbar would definitely be a
solution here.
The tool bar definitely advertizes the browsing capabilities. But I
don't think the shortcuts are unintuitive, they are mapped to different
combinations of the cursor keys, even. It should be really hard to try
any key that might make sense and not get the wanted effect, IMHO.
Why not use the mouse-move-visible toolbar also in window mode? or show
the toolbar when the mouse is in the upper part of the image? Would even
be more consistent with the fullscreen behaviour.
Definitely not, that's a horrible idea. :-) The GUI needs to be stable.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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