Ristretto 1.0 - Functional Requirements (1/3)

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:47:32 +0200
Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Rain
> Viigipuu<rain.viigipuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How about deleting an image? I've found this as a major shortcoming
> > of Ristretto, that while watching a set of photos, I can't delete
> > some of them right away.
> >
> > I noticed that there is an icon which could look like an delete icon
> > in mockup section, so maybe it is already planned / existing
> > feature, but at least in version 0.0.22 there isn't (which I do
> > have in Arch Linux).
> 
> This is already available in git. And yes, the mockup contains that
> image because it's picked from a screenshot of that version. It is
> still missing from the document-description though, I'll fix that.
> 
> > The other feature that could be very useful, is sorting / grouping
> > images by date - like Google Picasa does it. If I remember
> > correctly, DigiKam does something similar  - it can show images in
> > calendar view. I can pick a day and see which images are taken in
> > that day. I'm not reallt sure how it should be implemented at the
> > moment - Picasa does index the images before and DigiKam needs to
> > import images aswell before - but if the feature is considered
> > worth implementing, then I hope we can think up some nice way to
> > that.
> 
> I think we could see that as a complicated version of sorting by date.
> Which is mentioned in the document. I can see why you want this, but a
> timeline widget might be a little out-of-scope for the time being,

You could implement an interface for thumbnail, or more generally
speaking, preview bars (like RsttoPreviewBar). You could then
provide a simple GTypeModule extension API for it. With that it
wouldn't matter if the preview bar is just a file listing (like in
gqview), a grouped view of the loaded images or a even a fancy
touchscreen-enabled thumbnail bar.

That shouldn't be too hard if the preview bar interface is
well-designed.

  - Jannis
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