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Contributor KurtKraut on the Usability category

Improve Eye of GNOME  
Written by vektor the 6 Sep 09 at 07:10. Related project: Image Viewer (EoG). Not an idea
At the present, I see one minor and one major usability problem with EOG.

First, a friend of mine tried to switch to Full Screen view by doubleclicking the picture, as she was used to from her favourite Windows picture viewer. Of course, this did not work the way she expected - nothing happened.

Second, on slower computers it is impossible to view a series of larger (say 10Mpix) photos quickly, because it takes too long to switch to the next photo.
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Solution #1: Doubleclicking the image should switch to Full Screen
Written by vektor the 6 Sep 09 at 07:10.
If it is consistent with Gnome HIG, make doubleclicking the picture open the Full Screen view. Another doubleclick could switch back to normal windowed view.
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Solution #2: Make EOG precache next and previous picture
Written by vektor the 6 Sep 09 at 07:14.
When viewing a directory full of pictures it can be quite safely presumed that they will be requested in more-less linear manner.

Therefore I suggest to have EOG precache next 1-3 pictures in direction "forward" and say 1 picture in direction "backwards". Pictures could be loaded in memory while viewing the current one.

This could mean a seamless experience while browsing a collection of photos.
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Solution #3: integrate Gloobus
Written by Shady3D the 8 Sep 09 at 01:44.
Gloobus is amazing lightweight, application, that can be used for this purpose, just integrate it.
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Solution #4: Picasa like Preview
Written by Shady3D the 8 Sep 09 at 01:53.
implement something like picasa preview in EOG

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 5 Nov 11 at 10:05) >>

Allow to convert a image from a format to another just by renaming the file  
Written by yom the 31 Oct 09 at 12:13. Related project: Nautilus. New
I often see computer beginners who try to convert a image file just by renamming it.
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Solution #1: Make a dialog appears when users try to rename filename and allow to convert img
Written by yom the 31 Oct 09 at 12:13.
When a user rename the filename of an image, we should make a dialog appears to allow converting the image in the wanted format.

The dialog may :
- warn about the degradation of image quality (for example in case of renaming from png to jpg)
- allow to keep the original image
- allow to just renaming without converting the image
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Solution #2: Remove file extension.
Written by Lachu the 31 Oct 09 at 16:13.
It will prevent this behavior.
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Solution #3: Integrate conversion tool to system.
Written by Lachu the 31 Oct 09 at 16:41.
I think that files could been converted automatically. We must only provide sets of desktop files, where we describing tools to convert jpg bitmap(or theora video) into another codec/format.

How it could works:
- GIMP cannot open some graphic file. It asks special API to convert this file into understable format.
- Patrick will send movie via e-mail or send via ftp protocol. Before transaction begins, program will asks Patrick to convert file into another format.
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Solution #4: Context Menu Item
Written by alms66 the 2 Nov 09 at 14:47.
Add the option to right-click->Change Format

This could work on images, audio, etc. Each of those would have it's own default program that the user could change in the same way he changes other default programs.

See the 4 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 12 Nov 09 at 08:43) >>