[Rawstudio-dev] interface remarks

[oleksandr korneta]

I'm using the rawstudio for only about a year and I joined this list 
some time ago in order to report my opinion on the flaws of its 
interface. Reading the conversation about the new version in progress I 
decided to hold on. However, seem like none of the things bugging me all 
the time got any attention between the releases so I have speak up:

1) Imagine a photo, highlighted in the middle of the bunch. In case of 
pressing "del" button the photo disappears (flagged for deletion) and 
the selection disappears along with it. If you press any of the cursor 
keys the selection shows up in the beginning of the whole list. In case 
if you are browsing through a set of more than a hundred photos, loosing 
your current position every time you delete something is not fun at all. 
To my mind it would be more reasonable to shift the selection to the 
next photo on the right.

2) there is no way to flag the photo back as "undelete" (or at least I 
did not find one), and accidental pressing of buttons always happens.

3) pgUp/pgDwn keys don't do anything. Since the Rawstudio has a built in 
picture browser it would be logical to map those to Prev/Next to be able 
  to list through the list of the pictures. At least, this is the 
typical behavior for majority of image viewers (on any platform) and 
feels natural.

4) the curve editor needs some work. In current realization it is very 
difficult to work with points. Most of the time when I'm trying to shift 
one point, another one gets created right next to it and the slope of 
the curve suddenly gets extremely steep leading to total distortion of 
the image. Such thing never happens to me when I work with gimp or 
ufraw, so it must be something wrong with rawstudio. Maybe limiting the 
range at which the new point on a curve can be created from the nearest 
one will help?

5) sliders. The whole range of a slider is 3.0. The one mousewheel step 
shifts the slider by 0.2, which is huge change to the picture. Cursor 
buttons shift the sliders by 0.1 and no matter how hard I try to adjust 
  it manually by dragging with the mouse I can't tune it any finer than 
by 0.2. So what is the point of those intermediate values after all? 
Besides, It would be extremely valuable  to have the editable field 
indicating the current numeric value of a particular  slider along with 
increase/decrease buttons. You can find those in gimp, ufraw, 
rawtherapee and everything else.

6) would be nice to have an option to tune some jpeg conversion 
parameters (resampling algorithm, quality) since it seems that now those 
are hardcoded?

I have a feeling that I've left something out, but even this list is 
long enough already. Obviously, I cant finish without saying that I 
appreciate all the hard work done so far this software and looking 
forward to all the new features and improvements.



-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F9 x86_64 and F8 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

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