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'''Open and Save dialogs should be implemented natively, not to destroy experience of the platform you are working on  '''
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'''Open Dialog'''
 
'''Open Dialog'''
* Open and Save dialogs should be implemented natively (be adopted to a platform)
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*other points:
 
**a favourite folder should look like a folder
 
**a favourite folder should look like a folder
 
**in Open Dialog GIMP could remember sorting order (set by user) within a folder, during one session  
 
**in Open Dialog GIMP could remember sorting order (set by user) within a folder, during one session  
*for opening the files from browser window both dragging and typing should be supported
 
**Open Location requires now that user adopt to machine. Small project to find the solution for a mini (ftp like) browser for Open location dialog could solve [[OpenLocationProblems |Open Location problems]] .
 
**drag-and-drop - opening images by drag-and-drop should work also for Firefox (now it works just for IE)
 
* Open New File Dialog should make it more easy to set right size and resolution.
 
** Image Size: width and height should be chained
 
** It should be possible to chose resolution for print and for screen without entering advanced options.
 
*Open PDF needs Ghostscript, this should come as an installer option.
 
**other points:
 
*** something is wrong with sizing the pages preview
 
*** width and height should be chained, what happens if aspect ratio gets altered by the user: squash or cut?
 
  
  
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*We could set by default Zoom tool, to see the quality details.
 
*We could set by default Zoom tool, to see the quality details.
 
*User shouldn’t be able to use other tools while saving (for ex. a brush). Even if it doesn’t save what got changed while saving.
 
*User shouldn’t be able to use other tools while saving (for ex. a brush). Even if it doesn’t save what got changed while saving.
*We don’t like the solution to place quality slider and other settings in the existing image window.  
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*We don’t like the solution to place quality slider and other settings in the existing image window.
 
 
*Save as:
 
** Changing the name should be more easy. For example if you worked on image.jpg, then ‘image’ could be already highlighted, and you could just type the name without a file format.
 
** It’s important to be able to save work mask together with TIFF.
 
 
 
*Saving files with layers into JPG:
 
** Export, ignore: the terms are no good, what happens is not predictable.
 
** There should be a better dialog, safer, explaining more. (Now we will take this layer and merge it/flatten.)
 
** Better choice of the default formats (if a JPG file has layers, save it as xcf.)
 
** To be furthered discussed if it shall remember the last decision as a default or not. Because it may cause mistakes when it saves sth as JPG when user have few layers.
 
 
 
*Saving jpeg for web
 
** At the moment there is no Save for Web dialog.
 
** There should be a really big dialog with a big preview. The dialog should be as big as the image window at the moment.
 
**some advanced options are too technical
 
*** There should be priority A options - always visible, other should be ordered by categories but in collapsed advanced sections. We need to give them subheadings.
 
****priority A: quality slider, preview, optimized checkbox, maybe progressive (progressive size order – could GIMP know which gives in a result the smallest size)
 
**** priority B other saving categories – i.e. smoothing
 
**** priority C restart markers, sub sampling, dct method
 

Revision as of 22:27, 10 June 2007

Open and Save dialogs should be implemented natively, not to destroy experience of the platform you are working on

Open Dialog

  • other points:
    • a favourite folder should look like a folder
    • in Open Dialog GIMP could remember sorting order (set by user) within a folder, during one session


Save Dialog - the most important thing about saving is that one saves exactly this picture, and right now, that's why:

  • We need a big preview img window, but without rulers, menu bar, etc.
  • We could set by default Zoom tool, to see the quality details.
  • User shouldn’t be able to use other tools while saving (for ex. a brush). Even if it doesn’t save what got changed while saving.
  • We don’t like the solution to place quality slider and other settings in the existing image window.