Hi Simon, On po 18. května 2009, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have to say I'm really quite enthusiastic about Geeqie, it's one of the > best (for me personally: the best) image browser/viewer out there. As I > mentioned earlier in this list, I want to propose Geeqie to the Xubuntu > developers to include it as default image viewer. (The discussion is still > in progress, you can see some of the results here if you're interested: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Karmic/GPicViewVsGeeqie) > > In the course of these discussions, the heaviest point of criticism was > Geeqie's UI and partly I have to agree with that. >
Geeqie is focused on advanced users. I am not sure if making it default for new users is a good idea. I agree that the UI is not ideal and many things can be improved, but I don't want to reduce the number of features and flexibility. > I personally am quite used to the three-pane-view, mainly because I used > GQView before. But to have a simple view (like gpicview here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Karmic/GPicViewVsGeeqie?acti >on=AttachFile&do=get&target=gpicview.png) per default would be nice for new > users. The current UI is inherited from GQview with minimal changes. I want to make it more modular, but it probably won't happen soon. > > Also the menus are quite overpopulated, some streamlining of the interface > would be really nice there. I've been using the beta1 of Geeqie recently > and with the (tbh quite amazing) new features this criticism is even more > arguable. > I've also had a look at your roadmap and it seems that UI-tweaking was in > the alpha-phase of the project. In case you've already had a big > discussions about this aspect of the software I would understand if you > decide to disregard my arguments. > Now it is time to do smaller adjustments - menu entries, preferences, etc. Large scale changes like changing the three-pane mode to something else have to wait after 1.0. There is no concrete plan yet. > Nevertheless I wanted to forward this to you to see what you think. > > In case you need/want a mockup of what I'd have in mind, I would be glad to > deliver that. > Please send any concrete ideas, so we can discuss them. Thanks, Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
