-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote on 14/07/09 17:52: > > Il 13/07/2009 17:02, Matthew Paul Thomas ha scritto: >> >> I helped the F-Spot developers with some design issues at Guadec last >> week. But the general issue of one interface being used for file >> management including photos, a second inconsistent interface being >> used for viewing and editing individual photos, and a third >> inconsistent interface being used for viewing and editing collections >> of photos, is a usability disaster beyond the scope of F-Spot. > > I am extremely happy to read this acknowledgment of the problem :) As > far from a solution it may be. The same is true for all the other > collection managers that are installed by default, that is, for > banshee. A unique solution (if there is any) might be designed with > both use cases in mind.
Yes. Ideally, I think, the interface for managing files, the interface for managing music collections, the interface for managing personal photos/recordings, the interface for managing study notes, and so on would all be exact (or almost exact) supersets of a general interface for managing collections. For example, the menu item for creating a new sub-collection of files (a folder) should be in the same place as the menu item for creating a new sub-collection of music (a playlist) and the same place as the menu item for creating a new sub-collection of photos (currently a tag). Currently they're three different menu items with three different icons in three differently-named menus. > The situation is made even worse by the fact that movies should belong > both to f-spot because vacation pictures include movies - thus these > short movies should appear e.g. in the f-spot slideshow - but movies > should also belong to banshee, because you want to watch and rate all > those anime series that you legally bought and downloaded from some > online store. >... Aaron Bockover announced at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that Banshee will expand to do basic photo management. So he has a vague idea of this crossover, but probably the wrong approach to solving it, because the ideal interface for playing music/movies (consumption) is quite different from the ideal interface for editing photos/movies (production). - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpfJ3gACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrD4QCeI6VojFoEUJVe6MRSoYbvySvT 7WAAoI5ner8eRw97I+3ykIxQeqUS35f1 =mS10 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
