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fspot retouch.
fspot comm.
Hello Stephane,
I’m a graphic designer in New York looking to assist with the visual aspect of fspot. I’m less of a coder than the usual fspot contributor, but hopefully I can still be of some use. I’m attaching some ideas I’ve had regarding the interface and would love to know what you think and if you feel they’d be worth sharing with the larger community.
Thanks in advance + great work on the app!
ryan.
[OSD eavesdroppers: below are two updates to what was presented last week - other screenshots would be included but had no major changes.]
[I’m still not crazy about the circle for navigation on the timeline… maybe I should just slim down their original “square loupe”… I prefer my less clunky representation of “photo presence” data though]
[The crop tool has a a pop-up, shown here, with aspect ratio functionality]
[PS: they’ve released a new version this morning, so I’ll need to compare notes with my suggestions once I manage to get it running]
fspottery.
Here’s an update to the browse view, followed by a few before/after states. This includes some functionality for shared libraries as requested in a user scenario posted to the fspot mailing list (basically, two users with separate accounts want to be able to tag and edit the same photos from within their respective accounts, but have the changes propagate/apply to both); I wonder if each user having a “shared with” option (to associate an image with multiple libraries) would be a better idea (or helpful to addition to what’s already here). Obviously this is a work in progress, so I’m curious to hear what everyone thinks, particularly about how best to integrate info on the timeline about how many photos exist on a given day (something missing from my current version). Also, since I will not have my computer with me today, here are Aperture and Lightroom screenshots.
Importing
Imported
Edit
f-spot main in progress.
Hello everyone. Here’s a snapshot of what I’m doing with f-spot. You can see there are a few things missing and the buttons along the top haven’t arrived at their final location, but hopefully you’ll get an idea of the changes I’m making. The idea with the slider is that the number inside changes month numbers as you scrub left or right on the timeline; I’m also relocating the “full screen” button to the View menu… everything else should be self-explanatory.
all about linux.
Hello all. I’m including a few Linux-related links below - enjoy.
A Wired article from a few years back about Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux. Here’s his info page at linux.org.
unix.org
Here you can learn all about Unix, which is (historically, anyway) the software behind the internet.
gnu.org
This is Richard Stallman’s “not unix” project which fills in the gaps in Linux; he’ll throw a fit if you call Linux “Linux” and not “GNU/Linux”… so watch out.
Minix
As mentioned, this is the academic “Unix-like” OS created by Andy Tanenbaum to go with his book, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation; it formed the initial basis for Linux, with its code eventually being replaced completely.
linux.org
Here you can find loads of info about Linux history, distributions, etc.
kde.org
“About” page for the K desktop environment, which is one way of giving your Linux installation a GUI. I’ve always liked the look of KDE more than GNOME, but recently GNOME seems more developed, no doubt as a result of its default status in Ubuntu. The Ubuntu K desktop is called Kubuntu.
gnome.org
“About” page for the GNOME desktop, the default in Ubuntu.
ubuntu.com
This is the “OS” I ran through in class yesterday; it’s completely free and worth a look if you have Parallels (though Parallels isn’t required, of course); right now this is probably the best/cheapest way for a beginner to get started with a computer (just add a dirt-cheap PC).
If you want a few-years-old introduction to Linux (and an unhealthy dose of geeks on camera), you can check out the Revolution OS documentary on google video here.
f-spot
I’m planning to redesign the interface for f-spot, which is an open source photo management app for Linux (GNOME). It’s fairly capable (think speedier iPhoto), but not terribly attractive. You can check some screenshots of it (in all their default glory) here and here.
live neon, encore 1.
As before, you can find NGCT here. The posts and metadata are all “live” now (and everything else, really - except for the “archive” drop down).
live neon.
The pre-remedial, extra-basic version of my page is up and running from WordPress here. Not everything is using live PHP code, but the page is a header/body/footer theme with the first post using live information from a WP post (header, tags, body, date are all “real”).
contribution options
Perl. This site isn’t terrible, and degrades well enough without CSS enabled, but it still uses tables for layout and is built for the tiniest of resolutions. I think updating the underlying code (no tables), fixing some of their type, wrapping the page content in a centered container and making the whole site even 100 px wider would help. I doubt they’re going to change the camel. Of these three possibilities, I’m leaning toward this.
Apache. I think the problem with a lot of open source sites is that they embrace “default” styling (blue underlined links, bulleted lists, white background), probably to show how “geek” they are. Apache’s main page is a good example of this, but some of the sub-projects are pretty decent. It’d be interesting, and probably beyond the scope of what could be accomplished in this class, to apply one identity across all of the apache sub-projects. Realistically though, updating the main Apache page or one of the more horrible sub-project pages would be a possibility.
Linux. Here’s another gem. This page is littered with mid-90s web weirdness. Where are these colors coming from? Check out the random centering and mixed bold/serif/sans. The possibility of getting them to change it is slim to none, but… maybe.
NGCT v1
Update: javascript menu is working now (tiny and idiotic oversight on my part)
Update2: post copy is smaller now (seemed huge after not looking at it for a couple of days)
