GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 319908
Usability Issues When Selecting/Editing Tag Icon
Last modified: 2005-10-30 05:15:17 UTC
Two issues One: 1. Edit a tag that has some images tagged with it 2. Scroll to the second image available 3. You must select a rectangle subsection of this image to select it, where if you wanted the first image you could simply press okay without drawing a rectangle. Two: If you edit a tag whose icon is not the first image listed when you edit it, the edit dialog appears but the first image is shown instead of the image the icon is from.
One way to improve the usability of this process is to select a square in the image by default. I don't know if any of you guys is familiar with Flickr, but they handle their "Buddy Icon" creation the same way. The user gives in the url of the picture they want to use, this picture is shown with a selection that defaults to a square. It shows both the original photo with the selection laying over it, and a preview of how your buddy icon will look once you press 'okay'. The way it works is very obvious. Perhaps this could solve the usability problems of the first issue of the above.
Created attachment 54012 [details] [review] Patch This patch allows the user to select an entire image as the new icon by just clicking on it. It also adds support for dragging and dropping tags on each other to reparent them, as well as implementing logic to prevent the user from messing up their tag db by moving a category to the the child of one of it's children.
patch committed, closing bug