[openbeos] Re: ShowImage "Mirror" Operations
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:54:34 +0200
> I consider most of the requests of things to add to showimage to only be
> applicable to photos, and therefore a standalone app for simple photo
> manipulation would be good. I'm also thinking ahead a bit to RAW support
> and the other things that make photos unique - the ability to losslessly
> alter white balance and things. I quite like the idea behind Apple's
> Aperture (never used it, just seen the screenshots) - an app expressly
> designed for photo manipulation recognising the source as a photo rather
> than just a grid of pixels.
The problem is when you run your slide show in ShowImage and then
unexpectedly come across a photo that you need to correct in some way. Then
you need to launch that other app and that's what is going to be annoying. I
vote for making ShowImage handle photos, for the simple reason that most
people are going to use it that way. What kind of images are you going to
look at with ShowImage that are not photos?! I don't want to give ShowImage a
more sophisticated GUI than it already has. I would even remove stuff from
it. I would only change a feature that it already has to be more useful!
And because the plug-in thing has come up - please not that plug-ins is the
stuff that makes your app load slower. Just look at Refraction versus
WonderBrush. And WonderBrush could start even faster if it wasn't using
add-ons for its languages.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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