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

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 23:37, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> In response to Mark's mockup, and the other mockups he posted here from
> Luca, I have created a happy HIGificated mockup, of what the background
> tab in a "Desktop Appearance" properties capplet would look like.
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gnome-background-properties.png

Looks good, tho somewhat familiar... ;-)

> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 15:39, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> > 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
>
> Not really. The filename is an almost useless thing to know when you
> have a thumbnail being displayed. More interesting information might
> be file size, aspect ratio, or the comment/title from exif data. It's
> too bad people don't like html mails, because they can be useful. Like,
> I could put a mockup of a row in the list view, here.

Hmm, I have an interesting question - just a thumbnail would be useless
for the severely visually impaired, but then, so would be a background
image at all.  It still shouldn't be ignored, tho, no?

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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
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