Comments on: EOG statubar

By: Federico Mena-Quintero

Federico Mena-Quintero — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, this is very nice!

1. Non-prographers don’t care about exposure, but if it takes so little space in the status bar, I wouldn’t even put an option to hide it. It’s harmless info, just like when your camera displays it right before taking the picture.

2. Yes.

3. Simplified.

4. Nothing. It’s beautiful the way you presented it. Maybe show the uncompressed size – graphic arts nerds like to see that.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Full size screenshot isn’t available without a login. Flickr, maybe?

By: gil forcada

gil forcada — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

1. same as federico
2. if not there, where?
3. get de locale info of format time it could be the best i18n friendly way ;)
4. in status bar nothing :)

By: Casey O'Donnell

Casey O'Donnell — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I found that i would alot of the time go and check the dimentions of pictures, many other apps display the size there and its much less of a hassle.

as for the exif values they are good but the position looks weird to me, most end users wouldnt care about the information because they probably have a point and shoot with little manual settings, but for some people it would be very useful.

By: Lucas Rocha

Lucas Rocha — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

@Sam, the screenshot is available now.

@Casey, weird position? What do you mean? I think the exif values should be separated from the general info in some way to reduce the visual noise and not confuse the user.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I like it! How about making the statusbar content click able, like a context menu, for quick customization.

By: Abbas Khan

Abbas Khan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Perfect, i just hope you have an option to turn it off in view (view -> Exif Data). I also hope this is turned off by default since most users don’t need/understand this.

By: MattW

MattW — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Being able to turn it off would just be a pointless extra preference. Users see this information when they use their cameras and if they don’t know what it means it’s harmless. They’ll probably figure out what the date is, and the rest can be briefly explained in the eog help system if they get really curious.

It’s just empty space on the status bar anyway, I don’t think it’s going to seriously confuse anybody to death.

By: Richi Plana

Richi Plana — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What’s missing? How about the Lat-Long coordinates as well as heading when the picture was taken? ;) One can only hope. Once the OpenMoko phone gets released with a camera, we plan on putting that in the EXIF info. Maemo should have something similar.

Can you make it such that clicking on the status bar would pop up additional EXIF information? Like if I click on the exposure summary, the rest of the picture conditions would appear?

By: François

François — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Great, that’s something I’m often looking at! The focal length would be the cherry on the cake :) With all those information, you have basically all the settings chosen to take the photo. that’s very useful for poor photographers like me who tries to understand how a pic was taken.

And please stop with your samples, last time your wife, now a dessert she probably prepares for you, do you REALLY want us all jealous? Are you happy now? ;)