<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/24, Gandalf Lechner <<a href="mailto:gandalf.lechner@esi.ac.at">gandalf.lechner@esi.ac.at</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,</blockquote><div><br>
Hi <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I played a bit with the new timeline view in current svn. It's a very nice<br>
addition to the program, and it's working stable and without problems for<br>me - thanks a lot to the developers!</blockquote><div><br>
Thanks<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Here I would like to provide some feedback on the user interaction with the<br>new tool, which in my opinion could be improved:
<br><br>At first, you see this big rectangle shaped "cursor" to navigate through the<br>timeline, and I was slightly confused that selecting a year (or month,<br>week ...) doesn't result in showing you the pictures within the selected
<br>year. As far as I can tell, the cursor is currently only intended to count<br>the images in the database which match the corresponding time selection. To<br>filter images, you instead have to use the narrow bar at the bottom of the
<br>timeline viewer, which I overlooked at first.</blockquote><div><br>
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Yes, this is exactly how KPhotoAlbum Timeline work. I have just
reproduce the same behaviours, for a first time, with of course some
improvements like discontiguous selection for ex.<br>
<br>
The code is not a fork of KPhotoAlbum code. It's my proper code written
from scratch. Code from KPhotoAlbum is a little obscur and, from a
developper viewpoint baddly designed... But it's another subject (:=)))<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Probably, most users are more interested in finding images taken in some time
<br>interval, rather than just counting images; in particular since the bar view<br>already gives you an approximate idea about the relative numbers of images<br>involved (maybe there could be some vertical axis with a scale on it, too?).
</blockquote><div><br>
The cursor give us the real value... but it's not designed to perform selections<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> So my suggestion would be to exchange the functionality of the big cursor and
<br>the small bar at the bottom. What I would like even better would be to have a<br>single cursor thing only, which does the selection and counting business at<br>the same time - control of the timeline view would then be simpler and more
<br>natural.</blockquote><div><br>
Totally agree. You is not alone to report this viewpoint. There are few
pending task to finalize code as well (outside cursor and selection),
and after i will merge selection area with cursor...<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
Gilles Caulier</div></div><br>