On 11/23/2012 11:22 AM, Bruno Postle wrote:
On Wed 21-Nov-2012 at 21:40 -0800, Terry Duell wrote:
There hasn't been a lot of discussion of late about problems with the
gui update.
I have been running a gui update version for a while now, and it seems
to be OK for me.
I think that right now is the time for people to try the new GUI and
contribute to it. We had the option of going straight to the new GUI,
but instead 2012.0.0 was released, which is very similar to 2011.4.0 but
with incremental improvements. This was the conservative approach, but
the more radical change is still coming.
The basic concept is that most people use the Assistant tab and Fast
Preview exclusively, so the Assistant tab has been merged into the Fast
Preview - Which becomes the main window of the GUI.
My issue with that: Fast Preview will absolutely have to work. I have
the most recent release on 2 machines here, both running Debian Sid with
current video and OpenGL drivers installed. The one running on the
desktop machine works with no problems. The one running on my laptop
(with Intel 855GM graphics hardware) silently dies whenever I try to use
the Fast Preview. I've done all the various workarounds, with no more
than momentary success.
If the merged Assistant-Fast-Preview window dies on opening when a new
user tries to use Hugin, Hugin won't be usable to them at all. With the
present Assistant tab set up, they can at least load images, run the
Alignment Assistant, hit Stitch, and (hopefully) get a stitched image
even if OpenGL doesn't work on their system.
However, people who don't use the Assistant should find it similar to
before - Except there has been factoring and tidying up, so some things
will have moved around a bit and will take some getting used to.
Yeah, I seem to recall that some things are in the wrong places. ;-)
So it needs _more_ testing. i.e. there are two use cases that both need
to be tested: The 1,2,3 Assistant approach; and the 'power user' approach.
I'd add a 3rd, outlined above: 1,2,3 Assistant approach when Fast
Preview WON'T work.
Also, what impact might there be from MS Windows 8's increased crippling
of OpenGL? Will the Windows release eventually have to replace all the
OpenGL code with DirectX code?
I don't remember how to get Debian Linux packages of the revised GUI,
but if someone lets me know, I'm willing to test it out.
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