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Re: Ristretto 1.0 - Functional Requirements (1/3)

by Vincent T :: Rate this Message:

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Stephan Arts <stephan@...> wrote:

Hi guys,

After a couple of years of development, I am getting tired of the
ad-hoc hacker style development model I have been using for ristretto.
This development model was the cause of several issues which were not
easy to solve.

- Returning bugs (memory usage, thumbnails, slow UI)
- Constant rewrites whenever a new feature was being worked on
- and a few other things...

When this keeps happening, the fun of coding tends to go away...

To prevent that stuff from happening again, I have decided to first
put up a decent specification of what Ristretto should do and how it
should look like(1/3), then actually make a proper design based on
those specifications(2/3) and finally start coding (3/3).

You can find a mockup of the functional specification document for
Ristretto 1.0 on the wiki[0].

I would like you all to look at the specification, and if you have any
suggestions on features and functionality, please post them on this
list. Then we can discuss the direction that the development of
Ristretto is going to take.

Kind regards,
Stephan Arts

[0] http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/fsd/ristretto/1.0

Well... If you are allowing the user to rotate the image himself, then that already is a form of editing, just without saving the edits. Perhaps it would be less confusing if you also provided the user with the option to save the rotation, warn the user that his changes *aren't* saved, or disallow manual rotation in general (I don't think this is a good option, of course, but as the alternative does entail editing, I'd say that you might as well let the user save those edits).

Oh, and it'd be nice if the "Set as wallpaper" option is only available if this is actually possible (i.e. xfdesktop is used).

And finally, perhaps it is confusing to put the navigation bar on the bottom (with the left and right arrows) when the thumbnails are listed vertically on the right (so clicking right will skip to the image below). Not sure if that's how you designed it to look, but if it is, then that might not be a good idea ;-)

Best,

--
Vincent

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