Hello, I'm not a ui design expert but I think there is too much "unrelated" info in one screen
What about a wizard like UI ( Just have a look at the windows powertoy "Syntoy" [1]) - 1st screen choose parameters ( like you did in the new toolbar) then click next , maybe adding functionality to load a specific "profile" ( serialized preferences ) - 2nd screen: the current screen with the thumbnails - 3rd screen: acutal download with progress bar Not a full "functional spec", but I hope you'll get the idea .. Just my 0.02€ Regards, Etienne [1] http://www.labo-microsoft.org/articles/win/synctoy/ ( in french but there are a lot of screenshots Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 02:14:04 Damon Lynch a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > A deficiency noted by several users (including myself) in the current > user interface is that the option to automatically delete images or not > when downloaded is buried in the preferences. For instance, it's easy to > forget it's turned on, which is not good if once in a while you want to > download images from your friend's camera. The "from" and "to" could be > made clearer too. > > The obvious solution is to create a toolbar, which I've done in a rough > format: > > New toolbar > > I say it's rough because it currently doesn't work, in the sense that > changing the values currently does nothing. It might not be clear, but > "Auto Detect" is a pushbutton. If it's pressed, the "from" file chooser > is disabled. > > What do you all think? Do you think it is ugly or ok? If ugly, the > challenge is to come up with something that looks better, doesn't take > up a lot of room, and is obvious to the novice and the experienced user. > > I do plan that the toolbar can be turned off via the View menu. > > Damon _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~rapid-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~rapid-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
