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Technological solution, there is no user interface solution at all.<br />
 
Technological solution, there is no user interface solution at all.<br />
 
It’s usefulness is very limited for copy and paste of technical details.<br />
 
It’s usefulness is very limited for copy and paste of technical details.<br />
Not acceptable is the fact to type the whole ‘http://by yourself.<br />
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Not acceptable is the fact to type the whole http:// by yourself.<br />
 
Too sophisticated. It does the job, but you can’t make any mistake.<br />
 
Too sophisticated. It does the job, but you can’t make any mistake.<br />
 
You should be ale to go to a website and browse your way towards it.<br />
 
You should be ale to go to a website and browse your way towards it.<br />

Revision as of 08:49, 2 March 2007

Photo Realistic - creating high quality photo realistic


Icons in the Toolbox:

  • not meaningful enough
  • should have strong contours, be good metaphors, differentiate by colours
  • pen and pencil have almost the same angle and colour, at least the colour should be changed
  • new icons for Dodge or Burn tool and Eraser
  • Levels, Curves, Threshold represent the dialog window, not the its meaning & function
  • all the transformation tool look almost the same, the colour is the same, just the details differ
  • Ink tool would be better represented with a nib
  • Crop&resize is not enough differentiated from the bg, and it’s difficult to know what it is; traditional two 'L' were better
  • Measure tool is too complicated, detailed; old one was better (look at www.doc.gimp.org)


Open Image Window

Not a native dialog.
Left favorite directories, top- path.
Doesn’t show files that are shortcuts to folders (in Windows).
Maybe GIMP could remember that during one session/ or within one folder we want to see the files in Open dialog sorted by time.

Conclusions
Dialog is not the standard dialog of the operating system.
Dialogs should be implemented natively (Open and Save dialogs should be implemented according to platform dialogs.).
If you have cross platform projects, adopt them to the platform. Do not compromise, so that it fits all of them.


Acquire Scanner/Camera

To Scan you need to install SANE plugin.
It should show possible devices and let user chose one, knowing what type of device it is.


Open Location

Technological solution, there is no user interface solution at all.
It’s usefulness is very limited for copy and paste of technical details.
Not acceptable is the fact to type the whole http:// by yourself.
Too sophisticated. It does the job, but you can’t make any mistake.
You should be ale to go to a website and browse your way towards it.

It’s also possible to drag and drop an image to toolbox from IE so that it opens, but it doesn’t work for FF.

Conclusions
User has to adapt to machine! That’s wrong
If dragging and typing are supported, it’s good
Maybe there should be a small project to find the solution for mini browser for Open location dialog.