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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by forrest on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @14:26
<i>it would need a pretty big rethink/rewrite in any case as the UI really needs to be completely rethought.</i>

I'll second that :)
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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by ac on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @15:41
<i>I'll second that :)</i>

<p>Could you please elaborate? What do you not like about the current user interface, and what ideas do you have to make it better? It would be great if we could collect some ideas here, so that the soon-to-be-widely-admired hero knows what to do...
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  • Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
    by whatever noticed on Tuesday 19/Jun/2007, @03:45
    my main problem with the current interface is that you can close the views in the main screen, but cant get them back in the same fashion.
    Most novice users i work with come to me with an empty kooka screen and the only way to restore it to its default layout is by removing ~/.kde/share/config/kookarc.
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  • Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
    by Aaron Seigo on Tuesday 19/Jun/2007, @09:34
    more than anything else, keep it simple. it doesn't need docks, it doesn't need galleries, it doesn't need a separate image viewer space ... simplicity. if the user wants all of those things, they can use gweview or krita. preview, crop/select, rotate and save: that's all that's needed.

    second, do it fast. there were a number of things kooka tried to automate or handle "smartly" that made the app a bit slow.

    third, don't try and manage the image results automagically. kooka tried quite bravely to keep automated galleries around. imho the scanner app should treat the scans as documents (think kate, kwrite, kword, etc) and not try and auomatically mange them.

    that's just mho though, and to be fair i've used kooka for years and have got a lot of utility out of it. so it's a good app. but we can probably do even better by learning from it.
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    • Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
      by MamiyaOtaru on Thursday 28/Jun/2007, @22:50
      OK, I'll happily admit this is better than whining about kooka disappearing. If a better scanning app comes out of this it's a win.
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