Re: Question about EOG and Clutter

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Hi, Andrew!

Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 14:02 -0600 schrieb Andrew Breiner: 
> I see that there was some discussion about incorporating clutter into
> EOG, is that still in progress?  I had an idea of using clutter to make
> picture scrolling have a coverflow look to it.
> 
> There would be a stack of pictures to the left and right of the current
> picture and when the user clicked next/previous or pressed the
> left/right arrow the current picture would fly to the appropriate side
> and the next picture would slide over to the middle and increase in
> size.  If the user doesn't want the image collection the picture would
> just fly off and fade out while the new picture would fade in and slide
> into the middle.
> 
> Does this sound like a good idea?

Sounds fun. Yet IIRC it goes a bit beyond of what was once planned for
clutter integration. For now only the image viewing widget was planned
to be replaced. But there's noone really working on that until recently
when the patches were refreshed.[1,2]

So, to be able to implement your proposal one would have to extend the
proposal and the API to include the image collection widget as well
(possibly extending the plugin API to be able to plug different views
using plugins).

Hmm...

Felix


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532183
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546504