Ristretto 1.0 - Functional Requirements (1/3)

[Stephan Arts]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jelle de Jong<jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
> Stephan Arts wrote:
>> 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
>
> Thanks for taking the initiative to ask for user input.
>
> So I have had some thoughts on this in the past. What makes gqview good.
> It has very vast rendering in a way it show partial image as soon as
> possible and increases the quality later this is great.
>
> It also has to remember the mode the image is shown, fit, full, zoomed,
> rotated.
>
> What I would like from ristretto is very basis controls and some smart
> exif rotations. Toolbar on the top and no thumbnail previews.
>
> I want to be possible to browse 4MB pictures as fast as possible with
> usability for myself as expert user but also for people with very very
> limited computer experience.
>
> Beside this it needs a good simple printing feature users want there
> picture to be able to print as simple as possible, maybe the mac or
> windows default wizards can show some reference models.
>
> I also use the app to give picture presentations, so preloading in
> memory options, and back and forward with up down keys and full screen
> options.

I don't want to sound rude, but did you actually read the document?

-
Stephan