[openbeos] Re: ShowImage Bloat

  • From: "Jixt" <janvanhoye@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:31:40 +0000

>The last few times people have wanted to see some photos I've got in a 
>folder, I've used OpenShowImage to do a slideshow of them. So surely 
>that means I'm happy there's a new feature added? Not really. I would 
>much prefer a dedicated app - it seems much more logical to select all 
>the files and open them with "OpenSlideShow" than to open one of them 
>in ShowImage and fight around with the interface oriented towards 
>viewing-one-image-in-a-window to get them to display as a slide show. I 
>maintain that the two tasks of "viewing an image file" and "running a 
>slideshow" do not often overlap, and are therefore much better suited 
>to two seperate apps.

I think it is stupid to make 2 applications just for that. Then you create 
redundancy. You would create extra application that contains (let us say) 80% 
of the functionality of another application. This wil not create simplicity but 
confusion? Users will not now what to use....

greets
       Jixt



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