[Shotwell] Call for testing!

[Adam Dingle]

Martin,

thanks for all your feedback and suggestions!
> Here is some feedback:
>
> * A usability problem: when I've selected a leaf node inside the Events tree and I open the file menu;
> then the "Publish Photos" and "Export Photos" are available. However, if I select a non-leaf node in the
> event tree, then select a "photo" plus open the File menu; then the "Export Photos" and "Publish Photos"
> are gone. At first this was a bit unclear to me but later I understood that in the latter case the specific
> photo represents many images; i.e. all the photos under that non-leaf node in the event tree. So technically,
> the behavior makes total sense; but it's confusing. I suggest you add some sort of clear visual cue in the UI
> that makes it more obvious that a photo represents a "folder of photos".
>   
Yes - one other user mentioned that they were confused by this, and 
we've come to agree that this is a usability problem.  It's a bit late 
in the 0.4 development cycle to make significant changes, but we are 
still hoping to make the event view look at least a bit different for 
0.4.  See http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1153 .
> Also, one might ask why I cannot
> select a non-left node in the event tree and legitimately select "Export photos"; after all I might want to
> export or publish all the photos from a certain day of my vacation.
That's a reasonable request.  In 0.5 and/or 0.6 I think non-left nodes 
will start to act more like leaf nodes, and the behavior you want will 
likely become possible.
> I like the idea of having events and key
> photos, it's just that the two different views (i.e. "View with actual photos" and "View of key photos
> representing various events") looks too similar.
>
> * If I select "Photos" and then open a specific photo and finally open the file menu; why can I
> select Export but not Publish?
>   
I created a ticket: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1158
> * After I have published a photo to flickr it currently says "The selected photos were successfully published".
> One thing that came to mind at this point was that I wanted to know the URL to the photos, it could be nice
> with one of those blue GTK http link labels at this dialog page in Shotwell. A link to "Recent Uploads" would
> be a good choice imo.
>   
Ticketed: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1157 .
> * Why did you choose ] and [ as shortcut keys for zoom/unzoom? Those keys are very cumbersome to type
> on a Swedish keyboard (it involves the nasty AltGr modifier key etc). Also, I find control plus and
> control minus to be much more intuitive since those are used in many many other applications, including
> for example web browsers.
>   
Thanks for pointing this out.  We agree that we should use the standard 
GNOME keys (Control-Plus and Control-Minus) instead.  We've added a 
ticket ( http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1155 ) and will hopefully 
implement this for 0.4.
> * Why is it not possible to zoom/unzoom when a non-leaf node is selected in the event tree?
>   
Ticketd: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1156 .
> * In the "Extended Information" dialog every label is capitalized in the beginning of every word except
> for one; "File size" (compared to "Camera Make", "Focal Length" etc). It looks a bit inconsistent.
>   
Right.  It's too late to fix this easily for 0.4 (we're already past 
string freeze) but I've already fixed this in the trunk for 0.5.
> * Why can I maximize the "Extended Information" dialog.
>   
That's a bug.  I just filed a ticket: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1154

Thanks again for helping us improve 0.4!

adam