Hello list
I've been using Geeqie for a few days now, and I like the direction it's
going, overall; since I can't reply to the relevant threads in the past,
I'm gathering some of my ideas here:
keywords/tags:
we have 3 problems here:
* navigation/image retrieval: maybe a tree would do, but I can't
stop remembering the painful experience of trying to use/manage f-spot's
tree of tags, for the whole hour I've had it installed (hey, I really
tried...); maybe something more in the lines of a filesystem browser
would be appropriate, they've been designed for precisely this task:
explore trees of arbitrary depth; maybe the best thing to do would be to
set up a FUSE-like VFS and pass it to Thunar/Nautilus/your browser of choice
* display: list-style (like Flickr) is just fine
* entering/assigning to images: here a tree/whatever control is a
big waste of space, an input box should do, coupled with smart
autocomplete (taking the bird/plant taxonomy example, when entering a
genus would bring up 2 choices, genus alone and the whole path -
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family); space separated keywords with
multi-word ones in double quotes should be what most of the users are
used to entering for starters, additional schemes could be added later
(coma-separated, etc)
Thumbnail/file browser: please, don't duplicate the file manager's job ;)
Sidebars:
* their position should be configurable (left/right/top/bottom)
* the EXIF, keywords and caption/title/copyright display/edit should be
just one sidebar, having a (configurable) set of fields; advanced EXIF,
XMP, keyword views should be pop-up dialogs
* they should be available in full screen view
* they should be able to appear as overlays (no image resize) with auto-hide
* please, make their colours configurable, so we can make them 18%
grey/black/whatever is easier on the eyes
* a film strip similar to the one in Flickr's flash slideshows would be
nice
* the sort sidebar should have accelerators assigned to the buttons,
hitting those buttons with a touchpad can be unconfortable
Keyboard/accelerators: they definitely must be configurable, I've seen
it's in the works; I find Eye of Gnome's keyboard shortcuts way better here.
I haven't touched C/GTK for a long time and have a busy job, so I can't
promise much, but I'll do what I can to help :)
Cheers
Sabin
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