Re: [Usability] Image Viewing vs. Editing

2007-12-19 Thread Kovacs Baldvin
> 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

Re: [Usability] Image Viewing vs. Editing

2007-12-19 Thread Denis Washington
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

Re: [Usability] Image Viewing vs. Editing

2007-12-19 Thread Matthew Thomas
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

Re: [Usability] Image Viewing vs. Editing

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos Moreno
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

Re: [Usability] Image Viewing vs. Editing

2007-12-19 Thread Jacob Beauregard
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