Ristretto 1.0 - Functional Requirements (1/3)

[Mike Massonnet]

Le dimanche 05 juillet 2009 01:04:42, Jannis Pohlmann a écrit :
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:52:54 +0200
>
> Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Vincent<mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org>
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> While that is true, you often rotate for a reason: because the original
> angle felt (or actually *was*) wrong. And in most situations you'll
> feel the urge to correct this again and again whenever you browse to
> that image. Thinking about my own behaviour I can say that I'd almost
> always want to save the image after a manual rotation.

Saving the rotation is something useful indeed. Rstto should ask if the image 
must be saved with a checkbox "don't ask again". The less casual "editings" 
are Resize and Cropping. Btw, I wonder if it is possible to save the rotation 
with Exif instead of overwritting the jpeg with another quality and size.

Mike