[haiku-commits] Re: r39105 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/showimage
- From: Citi Boy <citi324@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:28:22 -0700
Hello,
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> What was outlined already works rather simply in WonderBrush:
>
> * It can use drag & drop for importing images.
> * You can drop while holding shift to import into the current document.
> * Cropping is extremely easy, the icon for this tool is a scissor, as
> common in many other apps. The usage is completely intuitive from the point
> of switching to this tool.
> * Blanking out areas of screenshots is pretty easy, once you figure out
> what icon is the rectangle tool. (The icons should be improved to be more
> what casual users expect.)
>
> In addition to ShowImage, you can create shapes like circles to highlight
> something in the screenshot. You can make arrows to visualize some action.
> You can use a blur filter to use more fancy blanking out of areas...
>
> In comparison, what you could do before in ShowImage was not only very
> limited, but also cumbersome, since you could not modify a selection
> rectangle after you have made it. That alone completely ruined it.
WonderBrush has many more tools and can do tons more than ShowImage;
no doubt about that. But there are cases where the less featured and
more minimalistic app does the job better and faster.
In the quick and dirty image "patching" department, which is what
ShowImage's editing features obviously target, ShowImage is more
efficient as you can do what you need in a very visual,
straightforward and simple way.
Doing the same in WB means dealing with layers, objects, switching to
tools, menus, etc.. This makes sense for more involved graphics work
that have high quality requirements, but it is more time consuming and
not really necessary for the quick and dirty image patching jobs that
ShowImage so nicely catered to before these changes were made.
Bye!
Citi
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