Re: R: [Fwd: [Ayatana] Empathy is not in line with the much discussed guidelines]

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
 On mar, 2009-06-30 at 12:45 -0500, Evan R. Murphy wrote:

 XChat flashes the notification area, though it can be disabled. Should
 this be addressed as well, or is it a nonissue because XChat isn't a
 candidate for default install?
 
 Of course I am not the one who can answer this, but contextually, are
 there written guidelines including the no flashing allowed thing? If
 so, that can be added to an eventual bug report to xchat.

Yes, there are. Quoting from the GNOME HIG:


* Icons should not usually appear animated. They may change to indicate a
change of state, but should not do so when that change is occurs regularly
rapidly. A battery status indicator would usually change slowly, therefore an
icon is appropriate. By contrast, a load meter would always be changing,
therefore it should use a flat image.
* Any icon may blink to indicate an error in deference to showing an alert.
For example, a printing-in-progress icon may blink when there is a paper jam,
but not when the printer is on fire - that should show an alert.
* Do not rely on blinking or animation as a means of alerting the user to
any particular event.


http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en

Cheers,
Emilio



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Gthumb as default image viewer?

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello,

I've been wondering why isn't Gthumb the default image viewer? Eye of  
Gnome is unable to do the most common manipulations on a image, like  
cropping and resizing. Gthumb is also good at managing a photo  
collection in case the user does not want to use F-Spot, which is  
problematic in some cases.

 From my experiences I'd say that importing digital images to your  
computer and managing them is as common as using e-mail or playing  
music on the computer, and Ubuntu should handle those tasks by default  
as well as possible. That is not the case at the moment..


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Re: Gthumb as default image viewer?

[Alex Launi]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Otto Kekäläinen o...@sange.fi wrote:

 From my experiences I'd say that importing digital images to your
 computer and managing them is as common as using e-mail or playing
 music on the computer, and Ubuntu should handle those tasks by default
 as well as possible. That is not the case at the moment..


Not really, f-spot does this fantastically.

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