[Expired for Hugin because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
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Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301922
Title:
Fast panorama editor very cumbersome to use
Status in Hugin:
Expired
Bug description:
I want to suggest a few changes to the Fast Panorama Editor's
interface which will vastly improve usability and shorten time spent
working in it. Some parts of Hugin today in 2014 look like they've
been designed either many years ago and bits and pieces were kept
being added on without much concern for the overall appearance, or
like it was designed to run on a small-screen phone. Luckily this can
all be quickly fixed without much coding, just rearranging existing
things.
Currently there are six tabs in the Fast Panorama Editor, and clicking
through them is a waste of time. Let's fix this:
Assistant: input image control (projection, focal, sensor scale multiplier)
Preview: a bunch of preview settings.
Layout: it's a whole tab when in fact it is exactly one slider. A whole tab
for a slider!
Projection: output image control (projection, FOV, guides).
Move/Drag: synonyms in the tab's name, y/p/r, again guides,
center/fit/straighten.
Crop: manual, auto, again guides.
AT THE VERY LEAST let us move the images from the same tab we can
change projection and crop from!
To properly fix this, delete the tabs, they're a bad idea, they waste
screen space like crazy, and merge things.
Unified Fast Panorama Editor (UFPE).
Consists of three main elements: the image control panels (two of them, one
for input, one for output), the preview, and the preview controls.
The first element, input/output image controls. Two panels (frames? not sure
of the nomenclature in QT) at the top or on the left of the UFPE (depends on
your screen aspect ratio, let them float so the user can choose), keep things
small, don't waste space.
First panel is your source image panel:
[+] to load images (no need for a 100 pixel long button!), [-] to remove
currently selected image (click on it on the preview to select it).
Source image projection selector combobox.
Source image focal inputbox.
Source image sensor size multiplier inputbox.
Second panel is your output image panel:
Projection selector combobox.
Projection parameters if any are needed (sliders for e.g. Panini)
[Straighten] button.
Yaw/pitch/roll numerical inputboxes of currently selected image or whole
pano if none selected.
Crop sub-panel
[Fit inside] auto-crop button (i.e. no black edges).
[Fit outside] auto-crop button (i.e. with black edges).
Crop numerical inputboxes.
Second element, the main panorama preview. Click on an image to select
it. Click+drag to... drag it. Right-click for a context menu if
needed. ZOOM IN/OUT USING THE MOUSE; using the sliders as is currently
needed is highly inefficient :] Add [+][-] buttons
Third element, at the bottom of the window, is the preview control:
Exposure, photometrics, show CPs, identify, blabla, guides, grid, scale.
Everything on one screen, everything fits even on 1024x768, panels can
be detached and floated. Less than a day's work for someone familiar
with that window, because there is not much code to be written, just a
bunch of things to be moved and a whole bunch of code to delete.
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