Yes, agreed that if the filter is always visible then having the filter carry over to the next invocation can be quite useful. >From the usability point of view it is desirable that an action remains in place until the user chooses otherwise. So I agree with you.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, > > On 02/21/2011 07:51 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote: >> >> I started up Shotwell (latest build from trunk) and was very >> disconcerted to find that very few of my photos were visible. >> >> Eventually I realised that a filter term from an earlier invocation of >> Shotwell was still active. I hit F8 to bring up the filter bar, >> cleared the term and all was well. But it was an alarming experience >> as I thought I has lost all my photos. > > Thanks for being brave enough to run our trunk build! :) Glad you figured > it out. > >> As a result I would like to suggest that >> a) when a filter is active the filter bar is always visible > > Yes - we certainly agree. This is not implemented yet, but will be soon. > >> b) the filter should not be carried over from one invocation of >> Shotwell to the next invocation. > > I'm not as sure about this one - if we implement (a), then it should be > clear to the user when a filter is active and so it might be useful to > persist the filter between invocations. Will think about this more. > > adam > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
