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- From: "Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:49:44 -0800 PST
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Hello all,
I would also like to fall in line with Simon's comment. When I saw the
features in the new ShowImage, my first thought wasn't "wow cool!"
it was: "uh oh, what justifies all this?". In at least a couple cases I can
understand: printing, and page navigation. (for multi-page TIFFs)
But slide-show capability? Isn't this overboard? Certainly showing
captions below pictures in full-screen slide show mode is! :-( I'd like
to offer this as a guideline: if your binary is already larger than the
R5 binary, don't add "extra" features.
Andrew
Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can I just add a quick feature-creep warning here. The stuff that's
> been added sounds good (zooming, slideshow, etc) - but lets not forget
> what the app is: "ShowImage" - a simple BeOS image viewer. Lets not go
> down the linux road of constant new features that, somebody, somewhere,
> thought would be cool. The next one will have transitions between
> slides, then allowing you to add text on top of images, and then the
> next version that lets you animate that text, and then something to let
> you export as Flash, followed by the HTML image splitter....
>
> BeOS is all about small, focused apps that work really well for the job
> they are designed to do.
>
> Remember guys, new features can be good... but adding 100 new features
> doesn't make your app 100 notches better than before.
>
> Simon
>
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