[Kde-imaging] ImageCollection or Browser

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 14:09, Renchi Raju wrote:
| 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.
As Gilles explained, this is a special case due to no feed back. Maybe the 
correct solution to this problem would be to add a message box with a 
warning, and a do-not-show-again flag.

I can tell you that KimDaBa works like this all over the place, and I've never 
heard complaint from a single user. (On that topic at least ;-)

Which images to work on is what Aurelien is also complaining about, so I agree 
dont do anything wrt before we have a decition.