ANN: ristretto version 0.0.7 released

[Grant McWilliams]

>
> > popular != intuitive, look at Windows and arguably GNOME as well.
>
> Well, I'll bite... "The only intuitive interface known to man is the
> nipple" said someone more knowledgeable. I've had my share of
> experiences with newbies and I think there's little chance they will
> intuitively hit left and right arrows for navigating back and forth. Up
> and down arrows would probably have more chances, given that they are
> oriented "forward" and "back" in relation with the body of the user in
> front of the keyboard.
>
> Besides, when navigating from image to image in a directory, keep in
> mind that sometimes the image is bigger than the screen and the user
> doesn't see it in it's entirety if he uses a 1:1 view. What
> keyboard keys should he use for scrolling the image left and right to
> see the unexposed sides?
>
> Anyway, there seem to be at least three schemas of shortcuts assigned to
> "back" and "forth" movement when navigating through a list of images in
> a directory: Backspace/Space, PgUp/PgDown and Left/Right. However, I
> have usability concerns regarding the third one.
>
> Most GTK+ apps seem to implement the first two schemas (GQview, GThumb,
> Eog) while the third is implemented only in Eog. I also see that when
> the image is zoomed in, the left and right arrows don't navigate in Eog
> either. Don't know about the Mirage viewer, it's not in Debian stable,
> so I guess it doesn't exist...
>
> Enough rambling,
>
> --
> mişu
>
>
Well said. I never minded kuickshows page up/page down to go through images
although I'm not sure I know how I found out. Maybe it was in the menus.

Grant
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