Re: [gnome-love] Re: Re: anyone wanna help with gnome-backgrounds

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:39:51PM +0200, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 20:41, Mark Finlay wrote:
> > Just blogged about this for anyone who's interested:
> > http://sisob.tuxfamily.org/archives/000044.html
>
> Good suggestions, I have a few comments:
>
> - Using a thumbnail display is absolutely the way to go, but it should
> also include the filename - or at least part of it

Agreed.

> - I don't know about the idea of editing settings for individual
> backgrounds, I don't think this would be entirely intuitive (altough it
> is a smart solution). I think we should use "global" settings, but
> attempt to set sensible defaults based in the image size:

Allowing the user a page where they can edit the individual image and
have that information saved somehow would be a nice "advanced" feature
to have.  An "apply this to this image" type thing.

>     - Image is less than, say, 25% of the screen; tiled
>     - Image proportion is roughly that of screen; stretched
>     - Image proportion does not match screen: scaled
>     - I think very few people actually use center, so manual only

Yes yes yes yes.  I guess I never thought that such a thing was
possible, but this sort of thing would kick ass (IMHO :)

> - It should be possible for normal users to add backgrounds. One visitor
> on your blog noted that storing copies of images in
> ~/.gnome2/backgrounds/ or whatever wastes a bit of disk space, and just
> storing the path would be better. But most "normal" users don't want to
> think about this, they just want to set the image as a background, and
> then do whatever they want with the original image. But a "remove image"
> option in a context menu or something could be a good idea.

Maybe have categories of backgrounds.  A dropdown that has the ability
to select between system backgrounds, user installed backgrounds...  Not
sure if this is too advanced for the Gnome HIG though.  As I noted
elsewhere apple seemed to pull it off nicely.

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