Hi Warren, I finally have some time to get back to f-spot and I find myself agreeing with some of the points you wrote here. On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 22:02 -0400, Warren Baird wrote: > I think that at any point in full screen mode, a user should be able to > press a key to start a slideshow --- and conversely in slideshow mode if > the user pauses the slideshow they should have all of the functionality > available in fullscreen mode. > > This is certainly the behaviour I'd prefer --- it's similar to what I'm > used to from iPhoto, but it also seems like a fairly natural way to > work... When I'm reviewing photos I might start out slideshowing the > pics --- then when I see an interesting one I can pause, zoom in and > scroll around (eventually I want to be able to add tags, etc.) while > paused I should be able to navigate to previous and next images easily, etc. As a user I have found myself wishing exactly the same thing just recently. I recently returned from a holiday with about 550 photos and I work in a very similar way to do my initial cull. I would find this sort of enhancement to the slide mode extremely useful. > Currently I really dislike full-screen mode because the incremental > redraw is *really* annoying --- on my 3 month old dell d410 laptop > (pentium M 1.7 ghz) it takes 3-4 seconds to draw an image with no load > on the system. When there's anything else going on it can take 20s or > more. It is substantially faster to redraw in slideshow mode, and the > perceptible speed is even better, as long as you view each image for a > few seconds, the image appears immediately. I also find the incremental redraw slow on my AMD athlon 64 3400+ (2.2Ghz 64 bit processor). I really wouldn't have expected this as I consider my machine to be fairly decent even though it is nearly 2 years old now. > What I envision is probably moving the missing functionality from > slide-show mode into fullscreen mode (timers, pre-caching, etc.) and > then the slideshow button would just put you in fullscreen mode with the > slideshow timers turned on... This way if more functionality is added > to fullscreen mode in the future (like setting tags, etc.) - it's > automatically available in slide-show mode... > > Does this make sense? This sounds pretty reasonable to me. I'd be very keen to see some changes/enhancements like these! Cheers, James Fitzsimons
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