[openbeos] Re: ShowImage
- From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 05:19:36 -0500
We discussed this, some, at the last admin meeting. There is a fine line with
features like this that we are trying to walk.
Sometimes, very useful and cool things are very trivial to add. I don't think
that much more than a few days of coding time has been taken up by this. Some
features were part of a better implementation of translation (page selection).
Honestly, I was a little hesitant about these changes, too, in that they are
feature creep - something that we have to fight against in order to get done
quicker. But I think that they are OK; they bump up against "the line", but
don't cross it. It is sometimes tough to argue "bug" vs "feature creep". Yeah,
the slideshow stuff is a new feature. But if that is the worst of the bunch, I
think we are in pretty good shape.
On 2003-11-21 at 17:49:44 [-0500], Andrew Bachmann wrote:
> 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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