[Kde-imaging] ImageCollection or Browser

[Gilles Caulier]

Le mercredi 23 Juin 2004 14:09, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Le mercredi 23 Juin 2004 12:36, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> > > > > am i missing something here. if i choose to run the rotation plugin
> > > > > and i don't have any images selected it will rotate all the images
> > > > > in the current view/album?
> > > >
> > > > yes
> > >
> > > that is just not right
> >
> > Why ? It's work fine and it's not confuse for the users. Also this way
> > is very suitable for Gwenview and Kimdaba.
>
> i don't how its more suitable for gwenview and kimdaba; but if i, as a
> user, chooses to run this action will expect it act only on the selected
> items and bail out if there are not images selected. an analogy to this
> would be the delete items action available in most apps. if the user
> clicks on it, he/she expects it act only on the selected items, not all
> the items in the view. there might be plugins with non-reversible actions
> and they should act on only those items which have been specifically
> chosen by the user (using selection). one might say that for such actions
> the plugin should require further interaction from the user; but then you
> are putting the responsibility on the plugin author. another
> possibility is that app disables such actions when there is no
> selection; but then again we are shifting the responsibility to the app.
> its our job to get the interface correct.
>
> maybe i'm not explaining this in the best possible manner. i would
> recommend that you ask a few users as to what they expect in such a
> scenario.

This is right only for the JpegLossLess plugin actions because there isn't a 
dialog with the operations/files listed before running.

For TimeAdjust and SendImages plugins, the user have the informations before 
in a dialog.

I will fixed JPEGLossLess in CVS...

Nota : Jesper, since i have provide the plugins handbooks for each plugins 
(kate project based), i tips you to provide a list of files who will changed 
in the first page of TimeAjust dialog (like SendImages plugin), and put the 
documentation in the handbook.

Regards
>
> renchi

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Gilles Caulier