On 19 Dec 2007, at 12:01, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> This is an excellent point, but it doesn't apply just to images. It
> also applies at least to HTML files (e.g. Nvu vs. Epiphany) and to
> vector drawings (e.g. Inkscape vs. EOG).
>
> So it might be worth considering a UI that can work across
What I'm saying is that there are different ways to work with image
files, like edit, and manage/view., and that default applications, as a
design constraint, can't choose which one you want to do around half of
the time (if editing and viewing have similar weights). Editing has a
larger cost t
Kovacs Baldvin wrote:
>> However, what about this scenario: have an "open in default image
>> editor" button in the image viewer.
>
> Interesting that "less" for example has this, and is extremely
> comfortable. If you press "v" while viewing a file, it opens in an
> editor
Interesting that when o
Jacob Beauregard wrote:
>...
> I have an idea. It seems that there's a battle
> between image viewing and editing for default
> application's file association between different
> users. Some users use mostly image editing, while
> some users mostly just want to view files. However,
> there are more
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Jacob Beauregard wrote:
> However, what about this scenario: have an "open in default image
> editor" button in the image viewer.
eog (GNOME's default image viewer) has an "Open With" menu item in the
"File" menu with a sub-menu to choose the appropiate app, muc
> However, what about this scenario: have an "open in default image
> editor" button in the image viewer.
Interesting that "less" for example has this, and is extremely
comfortable. If you press "v" while viewing a file, it opens in an
editor, positioned to the same place where the viewer was.
Ba
I have an idea. It seems that there's a battle between image viewing and
editing for default application's file association between different
users. Some users use mostly image editing, while some users mostly just
want to view files. However, there are more users in the general middle
ground that
