[Shotwell] Shotwell Design Ideas

[Andrew]

Hi Adam

> - You've changed the Basic Information pane (in the lower left) so that 
> instead of displaying information with field names and colons ("Items: 
> 184 Photos", "From: Thu Dec 31, 2009") you simply use words instead 
> ("184 Photos, 12/31/09 until 1/15/10").  I like that look, though we 
> also use the Basic Information pane to display information about each 
> photo that the user has selected ("Title: IMG_0001.JPG", "Date: Wed Mar 
> 31, 2010") so we'd have to figure out how to display this information in 
> this new format.  But, still, I think that might look nice.  I've 
> ticketed this at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3133 .

Yeah, my idea was that you'd have this small amount of information about
the one photo when looking at it as part of a group, but then when you
clicked on the photo, and went through to the PhotoPage, you would have
a (i) button on the toolbar, which would produce a floating window
showing the more detailed information.

> - In full-window and full-screen view you're displaying a photo's basic 
> information in a floating window over the image.  This might be 
> reasonable as an option, though I think some users might not want to see 
> this since it obscures part of the image.

Sorry maybe this wasn't communicated well enough. I think the way
Shotwell currently does it, having floating window which move around is
great, my idea was just to make them look a bit prettier (add a
translucent black background with blurred edges).

Thanks again for your detailed and prompt reply :)


-- 
Andrew