On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:35 +1100, Terry Duell wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:33:43 +1100, T. Modes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 22 Nov., 06:40, Tduell <[email protected]> wrote: > > [snip] > > >> I guess I am getting used to it, and perhaps my projects are relatively > >> simple, but I haven't run into difficulties that haven't been able to be > >> overcome by a bit of 'education'. > > > > ;-) If you have proposals to make it easier/simpler/more intuitive, > > I'm open for it. > > There aren't any changes I could suggest at this stage. My difficulties > really all revolved around unfamiliarity. I'll try to spend a bit of time > now looking at it from the point of view of 'how could this be simpler'. > > > >> The question is, are we close to finalising the new gui? > > > I have no further "big" plans for changing the gui further. So for me > > we are close to finalising the new gui. > > OK. As Bruno said, we really now need a lot more people to try it, that > should really help to find any 'rough edges', so to speak.
I tested the new GUI a while ago but stopped testing when the developer became unresponsive to criticism about of some of the changes of that I found confusing, unintuitive, or caused a loss of functionality. > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: arclance <[email protected]> > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: hugin and other free panoramic software > <[email protected]> > Subject: [hugin-ptx] Re: GUI overhaul > Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 09:10:26 -0700 (PDT) > > > > The optimizer tab is much harder to use now since there is no way to > > > activate an entire column with one click, same for the exposure tab. > > > The user must click the box for every image in a column they want to > > > activate or deactivate, there was a button to do this before. > > > > This can be done now with the context menu. > > > > Where? > I could not find a way to toggle a whole column on or off in the right > click menu. > > > > You moved to optimizer master switches to the images tab but they are > > > nearly unusable there since the user can not see what effect the > > > different settings have without changing to the optimizer tab. > > > You moved to exposure master switches to the images tab but they are > > > nearly unusable there since the user can not see what effect the > > > different settings have without changing to the exposure tab. > > > If you want to put the the master switches on the images tab please > > > leave them on the other tabs, your layout is much more compact than > > > the old one, they do not take up much room, and you only want advanced > > > users to see these tabs anyway. > > > > The master switch say what will be optimized. So I don't need the long > > lists to see it again. Also the lists are read only and will confuse a > > new user. > > If the master switch is doubled on the optimizer tab, we can't hide > > the optimizer tabs any more. > > > > But then a new user will be unable to see what selections each of the > optimizer settings makes to compare them, they are not self > explanatory. > Why can you not hide the optimizer tab if it also has the switch on > it? > > > > When you removed the lenses tab you did not move all of its > > > functionality to the images tab as you said. > > > > > Also the lens tab was removed. The functions moved to the images > > > tab. > > > > > There is no way there to set the lens parameters that were previously > > > found on the lens tab on the images tab. > > > > Again, use the context menu. > > > > Thomas > > Hiding everything under the Edit right click entry is not user > friendly. > This is because you have Position, Lens, Photometrics, and Camera > Response all under the edit entry but nowhere do you tell the user > what "Edit" allows you to edit. > If an experienced user could not find these settings how confusing do > you think this will be for a new user who needs to change these > settings? > You have a Lens entry in the right click menu I would expect to find a > "edit lens parameters" entry there even if it just opens your edit > window to the Lens tab. > Since the "GUI overhaul" thread died a few weeks after that I did not feel that there was much desire for user input on the new GUI beyond reporting crash level bugs. I have not tested anything recent so I can't say if anything has changed since then with regard to the problems I had. If I recall correctly Hugin must be installed or it refuses to run and that complicated testing things quite a bit since I had to juggle multiple versions manually since automatic package building was broken (at least for me) the last time I built Hugin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
