Hi, First, thanks for creating Shotwell. I really like the interface, look and speed. I'm working up to switching over from using Picasa once I determine how best to do the move (keeping my tags, events, etc.). I thought I'd make a comment or two, but I seem to have gotten carried away - its much easier to suggest changes than do them :)
I think I've seen tickets already for several of the items I was thinking about: searching by tag/text/camera/etc for photos, photos without titles/tags, etc.), % number on magnification slider, tags saved in pictures, heirarchical tags, setting Event name for all imported photos, etc. Below are some that I didn't see tickets for. If any look useful let me know and I'll open a ticket. Some might conflict with each other - they're just ideas from poking around - from what I've seen of the bugs already registered they're covering all the main issues. MULTIPLE PICTURE VIEW: Instead of just allowing Title/Tag/Rating to be shown under photos, allow the choice of more information. So put checkboxes for all/most of the information available to users: Title/Tags/Date/Time/Size/Exposure/Ratings/Event name/filename/directory/etc.. And since this might make the View menu long, create a submenu such as "Display Info" to group it. Using all of it at once would be crowded, but the ability to select them makes it easier for comparisons. Possibly allow clicking the displayed info to edit it (if its editable) Add Rotate to the Right-Click menu along with Enhance as its a pretty common action And/or add the ability to rotate with a single click on the photo - so when you mouseover the photo in say the upper right corner a small icon of a rotate arrow shows, and when you click it the photo rotates. Avoids moving to the icon often (although batch selection works, sometimes I click instead of ctrl-click and lose my selection so I have to start over...) SINGLE PICTURE VIEW: Show information under the Photo - e.g. Title/Tags/Rating to be consistent with the Multiple Picture view. Probably use the same "Display Info" menu approach to select what to display, and allow clicking to edit the information that is shown. Title is shown on basic information on the left - but it doesn't always fit and isn't easily seen. Add a Back Button (and/or a Right-Click menu item for "Back" like Browsers) when viewing the Single Picture View that takes you back to your Event list/Tag Search. Esc might work, but its hidden. (or even new icons, e.g. |<- <- ->| ) Move Enhance button to second in list to match its location on the Multiple Picture sceen Add a Fullscreen button (e.g. in place of Slideshow button position on Multiple Picture view) to do the same as F11 Possibly add the Publish button in Single Picture view as well but that's probably not very common Add Rotate to the Right-Click menu along with Enhance as with multiple picture view, and/or mouseover rotate Possibly create a Right-Click Tools submenu with all available options (like the main Photo->Tools menu) - Enhance, Rotate, Adjust, etc. (May need to change to a Tools submenu for the Multiple Pictures view as well.) For the magnification slider clicking on the small or large icons jumps to the smallest/largest size, but clicking inside the slider does not jump to that point - it moves the mark left or right by some amount. It might be more consistent if the slider jumped to where you clicked and the left and right icons were used to increment/decrement the marker's position. You can still jump to smallest/largest by clicking near the ends of the slider or dragging it. Or leave the left/right icons as min/max but jump to where you point - its confusing that it just moves a bit and doesn't go to where its clicked Similarly, on the Adjust window (Photo->Tools->Adjust) - add <- and -> icons for incremental adjustment in addition to dragging the slider to allow adjustments by just clicking the icons, and jump to where the cursor selects instead of moving a bit left/right Similarly, on the Red-Eye window add <- and -> icons at the ends of the slider to allow adjusting by clicking them. Allow the red-eye window to grow larger than it does now (and allow you to stay zoomed in - but I think there's a ticket for that) On the Crop window - add a Preview button that shows the crop window only while you have the button pressed. Crop seems a bit slow (a couple of seconds to crop) so this may not be effective When selecting a photo or viewing it in Single Picture view, somehow indicate what Event the photo is in (ie I do a tag search and find some photos and then I want to know what Event its in). Could add a line to Basic Information saying Event (but this isn't part of the photo info), or add "Event" as caption (part of Display Info as mentioned above), or highlight the Event on the left (could be confusing if the tag and an event were highlighted), or have an icon/button ( ^ ) with tooltip that says jump to parent Event xyz, or right click menu saying Show in Event Add a way to Crop with tilting - in case the photo isn't straight SLIDESHOW Have an icon/option to show/not show the photo Title Allow a setting to maximise the photo. When I display my photos the left and right sides have black borders because the photo dimensions don't match the screen. This means loosing some of the top/bottom . GENERAL: In the menu Edit->Preferences: Add a "Default" button or marker indicating the original background colour. I played around with setting the slider then couldn't remember exactly what shade of grey it was originally, and preferred the default Default displayed title for photos seems to be the filename - could this be just left blank? Clearly this isn't the real title, since when you edit the title the box is blank unless you enter something, and seeing the filenames is distracting. Consider making the extended information window just a separate tab next to Basic information window on the bottom left - obviously scrollable to see all the info if needed. Should the "Photos" entry in the left panel be "All Photos" since selecting any of the entries on the left shows you some photos? Merging Events was a bit confusing at first. I tried to ctrl-click/shift-click the events in the left panel, but I could only select one. I found a closed bug saying this was by design - that Events had to be merged by first selecting the top level events. This wasn't easy to discover, so perhaps it might be helpful if when I ctrl-click or shift-click 2 or more events you either pop up a warning message saying to do this in a different way, or automatically switch the user to the Event View and highlight the multiple events there Should the Rating Stars be underneath a photo instead of ontop of the photo? Is there a way to group photos together. e.g. when taking multiple shots of a scene usually one is the best, but I don't want to delete the others, but I also don't want to see all of them most of the time. Rating them as rejected could work but then there isn't an easy way to see for a particular photo if there is another version of it. Consider Albums - where pictures can be re-arranged and selected from Events, but are only links to the actual photos. Usually I have too many photos of something and only want to send/upload a selection - but I also want to remember what they were Add a 'No Tag' tag to the list to select pictures without tags Allow multiple selections of tags - either by ctrl/shift click or by using +/- icons to show selected/unselected tags Add a 'No Description' selection somewhere - probably in the search box you're looking at (I guess this generalizes to searching for things with certain values but also things with no values) _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
