Re: Side panel, plugins and image collection pane

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

2007/7/19, Felix Riemann <friemann svn gnome org>:
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.07.2007, 00:45 +0100 schrieb Lucas Rocha:
> > Hi all,
>
> Hi!
>
> > Considering the UI consistency problem described in one of my blog
> > posts[1], I decided to make some (sort of) important change in UI. We
> > will "officially" only support the image collection placed on the
> > bottom side of the window (just like we have in the latest stable Eye
> > of GNOME version). This means I'll remove the preferences tab for
> > image collection positioning.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Comments?
>
> To bad, this didn't work out so nicely. It was a neat (uncommon?)
> feature to me although I don't have a widescreen monitor (which were the
> main requestors for this IIRC).

Yes, but we'll keep it there for those who really want it that way.

> Wasn't the plan to ditch the sidepane approach in eog-ng because it was
> taking precious screen space? Maybe plugins could just reuse the
> properties dialog. I can currently only think of one place where this
> wouldn't be so nice: a directory browser plugin.

Well, there are other plugins where the sidepane could be useful.
Image feeds, image local network share, image groups (recently viewed,
favorites, etc), image tagging, etc. I still think it's more
consistent (with the rest of the desktop) to have image properties in
a dialog.

Cheers!

--lucasr