Wow, impressive and fast feedback. As suggested, I'm trying to get to know the GNOME Bugzilla ;-)
OK, I missed one important point - I'm using a 12" wide screen laptop (1280x768). In particular, it means I have 16 cm vertical screen space, which again makes me somewhat picky about not wasting that. :-) As general GNOME-settings, I've removed the bottom panel and in F-spot, the toolbar and time line is disabled. 2006/7/4, Stephane Delcroix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Morten, > > > > Import dialog: > > > > > > - When I create a new tag under "Attach tag:", it doesn't get attached. > > [...] > apparently fixed in CVS > > > > > - With a long list of tags, it gets quite scroll-intensive to get to > > > the "New tag"-option - why not have an extra "Attach new tag: <text > > > box>" below the "Attach tag:"? (With semantics like the semi-secret > > > "t"-shortcut.) > > There is a patch which lets the user resize the tag icons. This makes > > for much less scrolling: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321025 Still, when I eventually pass 768 tags, they will be one pixel each. Return of the Scrolling :-) > > > - I have a NTFS/Windows-partition mounted, which makes it show up in > > > the import dialog - it kills f-spot if I select that by accident - > > > could there be a safe-guard against trying to import mounts which does > > > not seem to be flash-cards? > > I'll look for a bug and file one if there is none. How is the > > partition mounted, ro? Can I see your fstab entry? There's no fstab-entry (GNOME does some black mounting-magic here!), but my mtab is /dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 > you can file this one to bugzilla As a enhancement? (Again, I'm new to BZ) > > > Browsing: > > > > > > - When adding comments, the text box stays in focus, seemingly no > > > matter what key pressed. <shift>-<tab> does it, but why not simply > > > <enter> and/or <esc>? > the last-used-widget keeps the focus. what's the expected behavior ? That is indeed the expected behaviour, from a programming/HIG point of view. I can't really explain it, but once you have tried just entering your comment and hit <enter> to finish, it just makes sense to use. (I believe Picasa does it this way.) Personally it took me a few weeks to discover that <shift>-<tab> did the trick - otherwise I used the mouse. > > > - When looking at individual pictures, <space> goes *backwards* in > > > time and <backspace> goes forward. That seems very awkward for me, and > > > backwards of every other photo program I remember using. > > We're on our way towards the Big Crunch! That's entrophy for you. We > > remember the future but not the past because the thermodynamic arrow > > of time is facing 180 degrees from the psychological arrow of time. It > > was bound to happen sooner or later. Not being a physicist, the "arrow of time"-business does not make sense to me. :-) > ;););) > well, look at the timeline in the top. the browsing way is consistant > with the timeline. Typing PgDwn, DownArrow, RightArrow, Space go one > step to the right. (of the timeline). > You can display the timeline (and your collection) in chronological > order, bye checking View>Reverse Order As explained earlier, I've disabled the time line. It is pretty nice, but it also takes up quite a lot of space. I tried using the View->Reverse Order for a while, but as the main view defaults to showing the pictures at the top of the list, I had to scroll to the end of the list every time I opened F-spot (that was also somewhat annoying). > > > - When looking at pictures in full screen, the <left> and <right>-keys > > > does not work until either <space> or <backspace> has been used. > > Again, if this can be confirmed then I'll file a bug. > In FullScreen or in View Mode ? > In fullscreen, there's no problem (with the latest CVS), in Viewmode, > there's indeed the small problem of giving the focus to the main pane... > > > > > > - When in the overview-mode, why is the bottom-most pane consists of a > > > "add photos"-button, a "F-spot"-label (identical to window title, by > > > the way) and a zoom-control. I understand the zoom-control, and the > > > add-button, but why not use the remaining space to show some useful > > > information ("Currently browsing 973 photos of total 10534 in > > > collection")? > > That would be nice. I agree that there is a lot of wasted space in the > > interface. > File a bug, include a mock-up I'll look into it. (Is there any good way to make a mock-up, besides screen-dump -> gimp -> BZ?) And is i possible to attach files in BZ? > > > - The tags-browser is great, but it could be better. - A lot of space > > > is wasted on showing a big thumbnail/icon and a little bit of text. > > > Why not do like Rhythmbox' "Queued songs", showing a the title (which > > > would be the tag name) in large font, and showing album and band name > > > (eg. number of photos with the tag) with a smaller font. Personally, I > > > think it would be really nice if the timestamp of the earliest and > > > latest photo with the tag could be shown in a sensible way. > > See above regarding patch. It's one thing to make the thumbs smaller, which I will be needing before too long. But it could also be nice to have more information about the tag available at hand. > > > - All photo dates is seemingly shown in GMT, not local time. > > Have you recently had windows on your computer? You may have set the > > system clock to UTC by accident. > There's a lot of bug filled regarding Time... if you don't find an > answer, fill a bug (again) and it'll be a good starting point to help > you >From browsing BZ, it seems quite a few bugs has already been filed. > > > Photo manipulation: > > > > > > - Where is the undo-button? Currently it seems the photo has to be > > > removed from the collection, delete the extra files created and > > > re-import the picture... > > No, you see the dropdown box where it say "modified"? Change that to > > "Original": there's your pic. It's actually much better than redo, as > > you can keep both the original and the modified photo. Probably so, but what if I don't want to waste space having an old image lying around? My camera spits out 2.5 MB/shot, so it is in reality quite an on-disk redo cache to keep around ;-) > > > - I really fancy Picasas cropping and rotating - when selecting a area > > > with the crop-tool, the to-be cropped part is grayed out, giving a > > > stronger visual clue about what the result is going to look like. And > > > Picasa has s crop-preview... The rotation-tool is able to do > > > increments less than 90-degrees, which makes it usable. (Perhaps a > > > "straighten"-option where you add two points along a vertical or > > > horizontal line in the photo, and then rotate it accordingly?) > > File a wish. Sounds good. > > > > > - When color-correcting, it takes an instant too long to make the > > > changes show, which makes it somewhat irritating to use. And why can't > > > the values be re-adjusted later? > > > > > > > > > Export to folder: > > > > > > - When "rescale pictures" is selected, the exported pictures are > > > rotated correctly. If it's not, the pictures are not rotated. Took > > > some time to figure out ;-) > there's a bug AND a patch for this > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165645 > > > - When "rescale pictures" are selected, small pictures get up-scaled, > > > which (at least to me) seems counter-intuitive. I use it to enforce a > > > maximum size of my pictures, not the other way around :-) > fill a bug, asking changing the 'size' box by a 'max size' > > > - When exporting to a folder, the progress-bar immediately hit 100% > > > and stay there until the export is finished. > > > - The exported pictures are way smaller than the originals, measured > > > in file size (~2.1 MB -> ~1.3 MB). As I doubt Canons DSLRs are *that* > > > bad at JPEG-compression, what data is discarded? (And where do I set > > > the JPEG compression factor?) > > This seems important. Can anybody confirm? > confirmed, a bug is already filled and the solution is half done: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318376 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346452 While I haven't looked at the bugs, it seems you're on top of this. Great! > > > - The export-sub menu has a "Export to Web Gallery"-option (which I > > > *guess* refers to Gallary2), but there's also an almost identically > > > labelled option in the "Export to Folder"-dialog. Potentially very > > > confusing. > > There is definete need for documentation on this. > The whole export menus and dialog needs clean-up and love. It'll > probably be much easy once the 'plugin' patch is accepted >From browsing the f-spot-list archives, I understand some kind of plugin-architecture is under way, but I failed to find out if it was just export plugins or for the entire application... -- Siebuhr _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
