Re: A sad day for me

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Hi IFo!

Sad to hear that, but eog did look quite a bit out of place with the
other "refurbished" GNOME apps around it. I am also pretty satisfied
with how most of the changes worked out.

Having both a classic and a "modern" UI in eog, would make maintaining
them quite a bit more work. Also, I am not sure if that is even
possible without cluttering up the code too much. Plugins would also
have to support both variants. So, that doesn't really look like a
viable option to me.

However, reading your complaint I am having the impression, that you
are mostly concerned about controlling your zoom without falling back
to using keyboard shortcuts. Or are there other functions from the
former menubar missing?

Regarding the zooming, I can partially relate to you as the zoom slider
is one of the pieces I am actually not too happy with myself. While it
looks pretty neat, at least in its current state it has a few
shortcomings I am looking to address:

- For example its range is not matching the whole zooming range eog
offers, as it would become very hard to use due to its linear scale.
- It's also hard to "see" the approximate zoom level sometimes due to
it having only one marker.
- As you're saying it's hard to select a specific zoom level, even
though it has a small stop at 100%.


To fix that I'd like to play with something similar to the zoom button
Evince is using. Maybe that would be sufficient to help you out too.
However, that's unlikely to happen before 3.20.

Maybe I can win you back once I manage to implement this part.
Otherwise I'd like to hear which functions you're missing besides that.

Regards,

Felix

Am Montag, den 15.02.2016, 17:32 +0200 schrieb IFo Hancroft:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday I have checked the new UI of Eye of GNOME and I am very sad
> to say
> that what used to be application I loved using for 10+ years and
> wanted 
> to have on every device
> and every OS is no longer. I no longer feel the joy of using it and
> it 
> no longer suits me.
>
> I loved the menu and it was very good for me. (I am not using the 
> keyboard shortcuts, except for left and right and to start the
> slideshow).
> Now I can't really do what I needed the most, specially now that I
> am 
> getting into photography I would constantly need the feature to show
> a 
> picture in 100% and it is no longer easy to do so, sometimes even 
> impossible.
>
> It is confusing, hard and counter-intuitive that the menu no longer 
> exists and features from it are all over the place.
> I have not tried the new EOG on many Desktop Environments but as a
> heavy 
> KDE user I can say that the zoom slider that is activated by clicking
> on 
> a + sign, doesn't always work.
>
> Please, bring the old menu back.
> Have the new one, yes. Even if as a default, but please provide a
> simple 
> check box in preferences to bring the old one as it was.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> Menu Style:
> - "Simplistic"/new/etc
> - Old/Classic
>
> I don't want to offend anyone. I know you are all probably very
> exited 
> about the new look and have put a lot of work into it. It does look
> good 
> visually, yes.
> That is not what I was after however.
> I loved Eye of Gnome because it was simple, easy to use, and had all
> the 
> features I needed (even features I didn't think of, before I started 
> using Eye of Gnome) in one place.
> That way it looked amazing to me.
>
> The new UI and the fact that there is no option to get the old one
> back 
> (and I didn't even see a customization option for the current one)
> (in a 
> Linux/Free Software application, where things should be about
> Freedom 
> and Choice) and that I've been using it and loving it for maybe even
> 10 
> years and what I loved about it is gone, really saddens me.
>
> Please, I don't want to have to look for another image viewer.
> I loved how Eye of Gnome was showing as Image Viewer in the menu
> because 
> for me it was THE Image Viewer.
>
> Please get back the old menu as a choosable replacement for the
> current 
> one, somewhere in preferences.
>
> I promise that if you do, you'd have me as a happy user for many
> more 
> years to come and I'd do everything I can to help the project and 
> contribute to it. I'd even try to learn new skills just for the
> reason 
> to be able to help the project more.
>
> Best Regards,
> IFo Hancroft