Re: Killing Views Part 2 - The return of the Usabilty study

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:35:49PM +0200, Jens Finke wrote: 
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Nice! I just used this with my latest set of vacation photos.
> > 
> > Can I put in my requests now? ;-)
> >
> >  - it might be cleaner if the bottom pane were always 1 row, drop the
> >    vertical scrollbar, and drop the adjustable GtkPaned splitter; as
> >    it is now, I feel like I have to micromanage the splitter, as it
> >    doesn't end up right if I resize the window or whatever. Rather
> >    than N splitter positions, maybe just a toggle (open/close the
> >    bottom pane)
> 
> Personally, I don't want to view my dozens of images in a single row. But 
> I admit the splitter situation isn't ideal, especially it doesn't save the 
> position. I will try to make this more user friendly somehow.

A simple thing to do is only allow whole row sizes (1 row, 2 rows,
etc.) rather than letting the splitter be positioned to allow half of
a row. Ideally, remember the number of rows visible persistently
across uses (maybe per-folder), and be sure the number of rows only 
changes if you explicitly adjust the splitter (e.g. should not change 
when resizing the nautilus window).
 
> >  - also along the same lines, in "the inmates are running the asylum"
> >    by alan cooper there are some neat UI ideas that could be used for
> >    rotating the image etc. he talks about the UI for a scanner
> >    application.
> 
> Don't understand this right. Can you give me some more hints?

In the book "the inmates are running the asylum" there's an example
which is an application for manipulating scanned-in images.  It has
some interesting ideas for UI for rotation and other things.

Thanks a lot, nice app.

Havoc