Ristretto 1.0 - Functional Requirements (1/3)

[Stephan Arts]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Vincent<mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> After a couple of years of development, I am getting tired of the
>> ad-hoc hacker style development model I have been using for ristretto.
>> This development model was the cause of several issues which were not
>> easy to solve.
>>
>>  - Returning bugs (memory usage, thumbnails, slow UI)
>>  - Constant rewrites whenever a new feature was being worked on
>>  - and a few other things...
>>
>> When this keeps happening, the fun of coding tends to go away...
>>
>> To prevent that stuff from happening again, I have decided to first
>> put up a decent specification of what Ristretto should do and how it
>> should look like(1/3), then actually make a proper design based on
>> those specifications(2/3) and finally start coding (3/3).
>>
>> You can find a mockup of the functional specification document for
>> Ristretto 1.0 on the wiki[0].
>>
>> I would like you all to look at the specification, and if you have any
>> suggestions on features and functionality, please post them on this
>> list. Then we can discuss the direction that the development of
>> Ristretto is going to take.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Stephan Arts
>>
>>
>> [0] http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/fsd/ristretto/1.0
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> Well... If you are allowing the user to rotate the image himself, then that
> already is a form of editing, just without saving the edits. Perhaps it
> would be less confusing if you also provided the user with the option to
> save the rotation, warn the user that his changes *aren't* saved, or
> disallow manual rotation in general (I don't think this is a good option, of
> course, but as the alternative does entail editing, I'd say that you might
> as well let the user save those edits).

I disagree, rotation just changes the way the image is displayed. When
I place a printed photo on my desk, and I rotate it, nothing really
changes to the image. I just look at it differently.

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> Oh, and it'd be nice if the "Set as wallpaper" option is only available if
> this is actually possible (i.e. xfdesktop is used).

You mean remove it instead of disabling it? Yeah, good idea.

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> And finally, perhaps it is confusing to put the navigation bar on the bottom
> (with the left and right arrows) when the thumbnails are listed vertically
> on the right (so clicking right will skip to the image below). Not sure if
> that's how you designed it to look, but if it is, then that might not be a
> good idea ;-)

I agree with you there, I think the thumbnail-bar should be movable
(top, bottom, left and right) Pretty much as it is today, but more
intuitive and flexible. By DnD maybe?

Do you have any ideas?

-
Stephan