Gthumb as default image viewer?

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Vincenzo Ciancia wrote on 14/07/09 17:52:
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> Il 13/07/2009 17:02, Matthew Paul Thomas ha scritto:
>>
>> I helped the F-Spot developers with some design issues at Guadec last
>> week. But the general issue of one interface being used for file
>> management including photos, a second inconsistent interface being
>> used for viewing and editing individual photos, and a third
>> inconsistent interface being used for viewing and editing collections
>> of photos, is a usability disaster beyond the scope of F-Spot.
> 
> I am extremely happy to read this acknowledgment of the problem :) As
> far from a solution it may be. The same is true for all the other
> collection managers that are installed by default, that is, for
> banshee. A unique solution (if there is any) might be designed with
> both use cases in mind.

Yes. Ideally, I think, the interface for managing files, the interface
for managing music collections, the interface for managing personal
photos/recordings, the interface for managing study notes, and so on
would all be exact (or almost exact) supersets of a general interface
for managing collections. For example, the menu item for creating a new
sub-collection of files (a folder) should be in the same place as the
menu item for creating a new sub-collection of music (a playlist) and
the same place as the menu item for creating a new sub-collection of
photos (currently a tag). Currently they're three different menu items
with three different icons in three differently-named menus.

> The situation is made even worse by the fact that movies should belong
> both to f-spot because vacation pictures include movies - thus these
> short movies should appear e.g. in the f-spot slideshow - but movies
> should also belong to banshee, because you want to watch and rate all
> those anime series that you legally bought and downloaded from some
> online store.
>...

Aaron Bockover announced at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that Banshee
will expand to do basic photo management. So he has a vague idea of this
crossover, but probably the wrong approach to solving it, because the
ideal interface for playing music/movies (consumption) is quite
different from the ideal interface for editing photos/movies (production).

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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