Lucas, Thanks for the quick reply. I agree with Bruno. When it says "custom" and allows the user to type in numbers, then the user expects to crop to that ratio (or that exact number of pixels). What's the harm in allowing someone to make a photo of 1836 x 4? If it was a mistake, well, it's easy to go back!
I hope that you remove all restrictions on "custom", but if you do need some limitation, then an error message is in order when the user exceeds it. Otherwise, the user says "wtf" and spends a bunch of time trying to figure out what they're doing wrong. Thanks. Bryan On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > I think this is a mistake, especially considering that Shotwell does not > give you any warning so the user has not idea why the tool doesn't > accept the dimensions he explicitly specifies, which is very confusing. > I would argue that if someone goes through the steps of selecting > "custom" in the drop down and specifying explicit dimensions in pixels, > it's probably that they want those exact dimensions. > > Bruno > > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 15:24 -0700, Lucas Beeler wrote: >> Hi Bryan, >> >> This is not actually a bug, it's a feature. The Shotwell crop tool >> wasn't designed to crop images to arbitrary dimensions. It was >> designed to crop images to aspect ratios in the range commonly used by >> photographers, for printing and sharing on websites. So there's logic >> in the crop tool that constrains the aspect ratio to within a certain >> range, because in the world of photography there's no reason to crop a >> photo to say, 1836 x 4. In fact, when we designed the crop tool, we >> considered trying to crop a photo to too extreme an aspect ratio to be >> an error. We thought this was okay, because Shotwell is a photo >> manager and not an arbitrary image editor, like GIMP. >> >> If you need arbitrary image editing capabilities, you can always >> install GIMP and launch it right from Shotwell by right-clicking on >> the photo you'd like work with and choosing "Open with external >> editor..." After you save the image in GIMP, it will automatically be >> updated in Shotwell. >> >> I admit, however, that we might've been too aggressive in setting the >> constraints of the crop tool, so I've opened a bug-fix ticket for >> relaxing them here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3482 . >> >> Regards, >> Lucas >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
