Simon, On 09/27/2010 10:05 AM, Simon Spannagel wrote: > Hej, > > after using Shotwell very intensively in the last days, I put together a > small list of "papercuts", which annoyed me a lot after a while. Further > I have some suggestions, some of them might have been already discussed...
Thanks for your suggestions. We're also interested in fixing paper cuts since we want Shotwell to be polished and usable. > Du you want me to open tickets for all these papercuts? :-) > I wanted to wait for a possible discussion... No need; I've already opened tickets for these as appropriate. See my comments below. > * After deleting/renaming an event/tag, the sidebar jumps to the > beginning and you have to scroll down again. I can reproduce this only after deleting an event/tag, not after renaming. I've filed a ticket at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2611 . > * it is impossible to mark mutliple pictures with "ctrl"+"arrow > keys" and "space" like in the most common file managers. Right: that's http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2320 . I've upped this ticket priority to high since a few people have noticed this now. > * the tags are shown nowhere in the single-picture-view. Right. This is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2238 . > * Sometimes there is an issue with scrolling - unfortunately I can't > really say in which situations you can reproduce that behaviour - > but it is very annoying. If you marked a picture and then scroll > down, sometimes it just jumps back to the marked picture or a bit > below. Sorry to hear it. If you can come up with a reproducible case we'd certainly like to hear about it. > * on adding tags to a picture, the suggestion of existing tags > doesn't work for non-standard characters like "ö" Good catch. I've filed a ticket at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2612 . > * shotwell sometimes freezes without any reason for about 30sec, > after that normal work is possible. Some as above: I have no idea > how to reproduce that. Suggestions how I could see what is > happening in this moment? 1. Do you have lots of RAW photos? Are you using any sort of network filesystem? 2. If you run the GNOME System Monitor, does it show Shotwell at 100% CPU during the 30 seconds? 3. You could try running Shotwell under gdb from a console window. When the 30-second freeze occurs, type Ctrl+C in the console window to break into gdb, then type 'where' to get a backtrace. We'd be interested to see this. > * Maybe generating bigger thumbnails for the "event-picture", the > resolution seems to be not enough, in some of the event pictures I > can see pixels. Great catch - we hadn't noticed this before. I've filed a ticket at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2613 . > * Deleting pictures out of the trash seems not to work on > NTFS-partitons, only the trash is emptied, so the user assumes, > that the files are gone - but they are still stored in their > original place. 1. When you delete a picture out of the trash, does Shotwell display a dialog asking whether you want to only remove the file or to move the file to the desktop trash? 2. Assuming that the answer to (1) is yes, are you saying that even if you choose "Trash file", the file remains on the NTFS partition? 3. Are you sure that you have write access to the NTFS partition? > Suggestions: > > * After now using more than a hundred different tags for now 5500 > imported pictures it's getting really crowded in the sidebar. So I > suggest to put up some categories for tags, just easy ones like > "persons", "places" and so on. But we had that already, as I see > in this moment...) Right: this is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401 , one of our most-requested feature ideas. > * It is impossible to adjust, which EXIF-data is shown in the lower > left corner. This could be an option, so no "easy user" will be > disturbed but still the "power user" has the posibility... This is a reasonable idea. I've added a comment with your suggestion to the existing ticket http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2401 . > * An option for showing only photos with a special rating (for > "rejected" as an example...) or even "** or below". In some cases > this might be very useful... Yes. This capability will arrive one we implement complex boolean searches (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1587). Thanks again for all your suggestions! adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
