[Digikam-devel] Crop in IE

[Matthias Welwarsky]

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 09:42:50 Andi Clemens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just asked myself if we really need the normal crop method?
> I was at my uncle's birthday last week and I already evangelized him to use
> digiKam :-)
> When he is cropping images, he ALWAYS uses the RatioCropTool, even when he
> is doing a manual selection with no ratio at all.
> He has given me two reasons:
>
> 1. He is not able to drag the normal selection like in the RatioCropTool
> 2. He likes to see the Rule-of-Thirds

Interestingly, that's also my approach. I have never used anything else but 
the RatioCropTool.

> He also said that it is somehow confusing to have two crop methods,
> especially when you use IE for the first time. The action is always
> disabled (sure) and you need to do a selection first (which is not that
> obvious).
>
> So my proposal would be to remove the normal crop action and rename the
> ratiocrop. I have never seen any other application that provides two or
> more crop actions / tools, it is always put together into one tool.
>
> What do you think?

I agree, but I see the following problem: There are for sure users of the 
"other" crop tool. Can we limit their confusion about losing "their" tool a 
bit? Not that I have an idea yet, how to...


>
> Andi
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