Re: Many TRs for F-Spot. Time to pause development?

[Nat Friedman <nat novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:03 +0200, Arjan Geven wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Nat Friedman <nat novell com> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 02:33 -0500, Larry Ewing wrote:
>         > > 167776 - zooming out bring back to browser mode
>         
>         I don't know if it's a strong argument, but this is what
>         digital cameras
>         do in their view modes. 
>         
>         Nat
> 
> True, but who expects a photo management program to do the same.
> Instead, I'd expect that zooming out would do as it says, zoom out..
> to 50%, 25%, or even smaller percentages of the real photo size. 
> 
> Digital cameras use zooming out to go to browser/overview mode because
> of the limited modalities they have and thus cannot afford to assign
> extra buttons for such functionality. However, it's hardly related to
> each other. I think it'd confuse people rather than support their
> cognitive models.

I guess the issue is the inconsistency.  If I can zoom in from browse
mode to view mode, shouldn't I be able to zoom out?  Maybe not.

Anyway it'd be nice to have keystrokes for jumping between browse and
view mode.

Nat