On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:46:17 +0200 > From: Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: EOG features > > 2005/12/1, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I happen to think there will always be room for a fast light image viewer > > and Eye of Gnome certainly fits the bill. > > I agree. I also think that it should be just that, an image viewer > (not an editor).
> So what I suggest is to remove all saving options from eog overkill? might be a good discipline for testing and development (like using a one button mouse) but I think end users would revolt if there was no save. > and creating a sister app that has simple photo-oriented retouching > fulfilling the needs of ordinary digiphotoers. Rotate, scale, crop, > brightness/contrast, maybe even color balance and sharpness. sounds vaguely like what gthumb already provides, perhaps it could be improved? > The "eog-editor" should be visually separated from eog so that the > user will be aware that this UI is not the same one, but accessible > from the eog UI. there might be room to improve the "Open with" functionality in EoG (I'm glad this is being looked into and I'm optimistic it will give a better feeling of integration for the users even though things are still kept quite seperate.) > This kind of light photo retouching would really have a market, my > wife for example finds Gimp very intimidating, and it's overkill for > the ordinary user. I wonder sometimes why a small simple editing application like GNU Paint never made it into Gnome. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
