[openbeos] Re: ShowImage "Mirror" Operations
- From: "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:22:20 +0200 (MEST)
Hi Jonas,
> ShowImage isn't the right tool for rotating, scaling and processing
> your images, at least not _permanently_. It's purpose is to be an image
> browser, that works in tandem with Tracker. Alt-Up/Down skipping in
> Tracker folders, basically. Lightweight, clean and with a few well
> designed smarts.
>
> If you need more, get a real photo editing suite, or get/make a set of
> Tracker add-ons that aids your particular workflow, but don't try to
> shoehorn more into ShowImage or sub-apps. (Tracker add-ons that talk to
> a running ShowImage.)
>
> I think Tracker add-ons are nice, but Haiku can't be everything to
> everyone, and we're not creating a good user experience by exposing all
> possible functionality in every part of the system.
sorry, but I have to disagree here. I'm usually more on the "keep it clean"
side of things, but viewing photos, particularily reviewing and sorting
fotos from your digicam, is something *a lot* of people do these days.
We have to walk a line where we decide what goes into an operating system
and what is a third party opportunity. But viewing your photos, rotating
some and deleting some others right from your image viewer, is so basic, and
something so many people expect from their computer, I really think it
should be supported out of the box. ShowImage is already better than the
Windows app in one regard, and that is communication with Tracker. Ever
hated the moment when you quit the full screen mode of Image and Fax Viewer
in Windows and the Explorer was still showing the foto where you started? I
think even the viewer itself drops back to the foto you started with. How
dumb! ShowImage keeps the Tracker in sync, which is really nice! Almost
makes you forget you cannot delete fotos right from within ShowImage... :-)
Ok, propose a more feature complete image viewer is supposed to be a third
party opportunity. Suppose you were that third party. Wouldn't you take
ShowImage and improve it? So what, then we have Haiku ShowImage and
ShowImage++? That just doesn't make sense to me. If I want to remove red
eyes, ok, I fire up WonderBrush, also if I want to retouch a foto. But we
were only talking about lossless rotation! :-)
Best regards,
-Stephan
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