Re: [imgSeek-users] feature requests

[Ricardo N. C. <rn...@gm...>]

Anders,

Sorry for taking so long to reply.

Thank you for all your feedback, but I have no plans on fixing bugs
and adding features to the current stable 0.8.5 release.

Instead, I've been working on a complete rewrite of imgSeek. More
details are available at
http://imgseek.python-hosting.com/wiki/imgSeek2

I've saved your suggestions for further reference and plan to add some
of them to imgSeek2 feature set.

Best regards,
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Ricardo Niederberger Cabral
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On 8/7/05, Anders Bo Rasmussen <fu...@fu...> wrote:
> Hello. I just discovered imgSeek and so far it seems that this is the
> software I want to use. This is a program I should have before having a
> photo archive with 14 GB of images :)
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> I have some suggestions for improvements:
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> * Speed *
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> Starting imgSeek and adding 1700 images to the same group, uses about 15
> minutes of CPU time (2.4 GHz P4, 1.5 GB RAM). imgSeek uses 220 MB so it
> is not a memory leakage problem. (This should take under 10 seconds)
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> * Improvement of scrolling *
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> When you browse a directory and has a screen large enough to show the
> first 41 icons, there is no way to scroll down and see the rest of the
> images.
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> A similar problem is that, when you think you select all the images in
> the directory with CTRL-a you only select the images you have scrolled
> into the view.
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> * Adding to more than one group *
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> It would be nice if it is was possible to add the selection to multiple
> groups at once. This could save some mouse clicks.
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> * Display groups when browsing *
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> If the groups an image was in was showed under or on the image, it would
> be fast to check if the image should be added to more groups.
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> * Icon size *
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> The icons are very small on my screen. An option to select the icon size
> would be great.
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> * Icon size in HTML album *
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> The icons are very small on my screen. An option to select the icon size
> would be great.
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> * Non-US letters in group names *
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> It would be great if it was possible to have Danish (and other) letter
> in the group names.
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> * Removing image from group *
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> It seems to me there is no way to remove an image from a group.
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> * Keyboard shortcuts *
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> A lot of keyboard shortcuts would speed up the process of grouping
> images.
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> * Show the result of a search *
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> It is hard to see more than 99 images for a group search. I would like
> to have no limit (or a high one) when searching in groups.
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> * Show the result of a group search sorted *
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> I would like to have the result sorted after filename or time (it is the
> same order in my case). Then the order is the same when you are
> browsing or searching.
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> * Shift - selection is strange *
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> When I use shift for selecting multiple images I would like to get the
> pictures which is in the range from the first picture I select to the
> last picture i select. For example if the following numbers are icons:
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> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7 8
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> and i use shift to select from 2 to 7 I would assume I would get the set
> {2,3,4,5,6,7} but I only get {2,3,6,7}
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> * More than one window *
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> For people with more than more screen (unfortunately that doesn't
> include me) it would be nice to have the directory listing, icons, etc.
> on one screen and the selected picture on the other screen. So an option
> to have the current picture in a separate window would be useful.
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> * Select pictures in a slide show *
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> Sometimes a can't se important details on the icons. These details (e.g.
> who is on the picture) can be important when selecting which groups the
> picture should be in. So it would be nice to be able to select pictures
> when a slide show is running.
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> * Scaling of images in HTML album *
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> I have not unlimited space on my web hosting. So it would be useful to
> give one or more sizes the pictures should be resized to, when creating
> an HTML album.
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> * Multiple groups in HTML album *
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> If you have 3 animals A, B and C which all have one group and you have 3
> groups 'great', 'not_so_great' and 'bad' which corresponds to the quality
> of the image, it would be good to be able to make an HTML album like
> this
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> * main (link page)
>     * A (link page)
>       * bad (image page)
>       * not_so_great (image page)
>       * bad
>     * B (link page)
>       * bad (image page)
>       * not_so_great (image page)
>       * bad
>     * C (link page)
>       * bad (image page)
>       * not_so_great (image page)
>       * bad
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> This can be extended to more than 2 groups of groups.