On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Edward Hervey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Reading through much feedback, and as the result of many discussions > on IRC... I am finally agreeing on the fact we should ditch the simple > timeline. > There was various reasons for that simple timeline, most of which seem > to have gone by now: > * get something working (it was easier for me to write a simple > timeline than a real timeline back in the time), > * apparently it was useful in iMovie (they ditched it) > * ...
> But there is one nice 'idea' behind it which I would like to keep, > it's the fact that you can have a 'synopsis'/thumbnail view of your > timeline. Do you want this view to be interactive? Or could it be more like a report which you can export as e.g. an image? That should be not so hard to do. > > So the questions are: > * Does anybody find the simple timeline useful ? > * If so, why ? > * For the next release do we: > 1. Remove the simple timeline completely > 2. Or do we only make the advanced timeline the default (still being > able to switch back to the simple one) ? I strongly prefer the more advanced timeline. If the simple is still fully functional and requires no code maintenance, I would make the non default option. > * Would you like to have a synopsis/thumbnail view of your timeline ? I don't feel the need for a synopsis view, but more to see thumbnails of the frames in the film strips of the advanced timeline. > > > Comments and feedback welcome. I'd like to officialize the decision by > next tuesday (23rd Sept). Then we can do the code modifications and do a > release (finally!). That is great news. We could try to get a feature freeze exception for the next release of Ubuntu, but this might be unlikely on such short time. Best regards, Stani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Pitivi-pitivi mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pitivi-pitivi
