On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 23:08 +0200, Marcel Stimberg wrote: > Hi Adam, > > in the same vein as Svetoslaw: I am not a designer, some thoughts anyway: > > > - What icon should we use for the Last Import item? > I also do like the film roll (e.g. F-Spot calls imports "import > rolls"), there's one in the Tango icon set (emblem-photos). > Thinking more abstract, the "document-open-recent" action would also > fit for the purpose -- there's an icon for that in most themes.
I also think a film roll is the best here, and in the future, you can find one level below the film roll, with numbers or reference to the latest 10-20-30 or so imports? > > > - What icon (if any) should we use for each individual event in the sidebar? > Generally speaking, I wouldn't overdo it and keep shotwell's interface > simple and slim. Therefore I'd vote against small versions of the key > pictures as F-Spot is doing it. No icon would be fine, if any icon > then one that conveys some information (the icon in the screenshots is > rather bland). My suggestion (but something that probably wouldn't > land in time for 0.7): Show a simple measure of how many pictures > belong to the event, e.g. a simple photo icon for < 10 pictures, two > stacked photos for < 100 and three stacked photos for more than that. Nice idea. But F-Spot also has en Icon editor, in which you can pretty much set the icon to whatever you fancy. Including part of any photo. > > > - What icon should we use for the Tags folder? And for each individual tag? > A generic tag icon is the most clear I think, e.g. take the one F-Spot uses. Possible to set the icon to whatever we want (from a preselected range of icons, or to a part of an image) as in F-Spot. It works very well there. > > > - What icons should we use for the Cameras folder and for each individual > > camera (not shown in the screenshots above)? > For the camera folder I'd suggest the obvious, the camera-photo icon > provided by most themes. The case of several attached cameras is > rather rare, isn't it? I have a few cameras (one SLR, and one main point and shoot one, this is followed by various mobile phone cameras and the kids simple cameras.). Whenever I am out with friends who also takes photos I am usually asking for a copy of their photos as well... Perhaps enough with just a camera name, and no icon below the Camera-photo icon that is. > > Again, generally speaking: I think tags for the main categories are > enough and are useful as a visual separator, for the individual > events/tags/ etc. they are only useful if they convey any information. > > Looking forward to 0.7! Best > Marcel > > PS: Do you have any clue why the folder-open icon in the humanity > theme is gray...? > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
