Hi Jon I've been lurking on this mailing list for a while with similar intents to yours (though I can code as well ;)). A while ago I filed this bug report suggesting a community wiki so that documentation can be written and easily updated, though there was no reply to the bug:
http://bugzilla.rawstudio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275 I would be interested in yours and the dev team's thoughts on this. A wiki seems like the easiest way to go, provided it is well maintained. In regards to your comments on usability, I couldn't agree more. Scroll wheel to zoom seems like a reasonable feature. The functionality exists in many other programs (Photoshop, Maya, Google Maps!), so users would be familiar with it. Clicking the image to set the white balance is very counter intuitive in my opinion. I think a better way would be click-drag to pan around the image at higher zoom levels. A button could then be added to the toolbar to activate an eyedropper for selecting the neutral colour. I did have a look in the code a while ago to see how easy it would be to change the white balance functionality, but I never got time to actually implement it. Cheers Michael On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jonathan Musther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Jon, and I'm here to volunteer to write some documentation. > > I've had a brief exchange of emails with Anders about it, and so I've seen > the existing, albeit old documentation. Writing documentation is something > I can do well, whereas coding isn't, which is why I choose documentation > writing as a way to contribute to open source projects. > > I envisage the documentation being quite similar in format to what > currently exists. I have a few questions for the dev team about the > implementation: > > - How do you want to present the documentation? > Will it accompany the software, and if so, in what format? > Or will it be purely online, with a link from within rawstudio? > > - I think it would be a good idea to get documentation prepared for 2.0, > ready to release with that > When is 2.0 expected (roughly)? > > Since I'm introducing myself and offering my help, I may as well give my > few comments on the usability / features of rawstudio. Firstly, I think > rawstudio has some very good features: > - It's very responsive > - Due to the usability it is easy to tweak images, and compare the effects > - The photographer's workflow is streamlined, the software does not get in > the way > > But I believe there are a couple of small usability issues: > - The default behaviour of setting the white balance when the image is > clicked is confusing > To conform to common practice, it would make sense to have this toggled > with a button / keystroke > - Simple zooming > Currently only possible to zoom to 100%, or zoom to fit. > Graduated zooming with (for example) CTRL+mouswheel is the common, and > very quick and easy. > Clicking and dragging with the left mouse button when zoomed in should > drag the image around. > > The above comments are about usability and intuitiveness, this final one is > my own personal feature request. > - Reduce to B&W > It would be great to be able to reduce to black and white, and vary the > RGB being used to do so. > This would allow photographers to, for example, produce a B&W image > dominated by the red channel > This is the equivalent of using lens filters, or DSLR lens filter > effects. > > All comments welcome. > > Cheers > > Jon :-) > _______________________________________________ > Rawstudio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev > >
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