[openbeos] Re: ShowImage "Mirror" Operations

"Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In most cases I would want ShowImage to stay true to it's name and 
> just 
> display whatever image I have as quickly as possible. I have to 
> disagree with the "most people will want some basic editing 
> capabilities" for two reasons:
> 1. There are not only photos in JPEG format. There are just as many 
> screenshots, diagrams, webgraphics and such where removing red eyes 
> is 
> not really an issue.
> 2. I will edit my photos once but may view them hundreds of times 
> later. I would therefore not like to slow down the process of viewing 
> a 
> hundred times just for this one time editing phase.

Sounds convincing to me.

> As a viewer ShowImage has to be able to display, scale to fit 
> (instead 
> of the two menu itmes shirnk to window and zoom to window), rotate 
> and 
> maybe flip and clip an image. Anything else (invert, dither?) and 

Indeed, I would remove invert/dither as well.

> especially photo editing makes no sense in a viewer IMHO. In that 
> regard I really like what the preview thing in windows does. It 
> provides a button "edit picture" which then launches an editing 
> application where you can do whatever (sure using mspaint is not the 
> most sensible thing to do but the concept is nice). I would rather 
> like 
> an edit shortcut (ctrl-e) and a menu item in ShowImage than having 
> all 
> the extra stuff built in. But this is obviously one of those things 
> that we'll never really agree on I guess...

I would be all in favour for this, but you're more or less requesting 
missing feature here: right now, there is only the B_OPEN "verb" for 
BMimeType::GetPreferredApp(), IOW ShowImage wouldn't have a clue which 
application to choose, it would need to have its own settings for this 
which I wouldn't like. I would even prefer a "Open With..." like menu 
over that.

Bye,
   Axel.

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