GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 417486
Improve red eye correction
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:08:22 UTC
I have been trying to introduce the mother of my girlfriend to Ubuntu and to F-Spot. A few things were very awkward for her and it was difficult to justify. So here is a first report for enhancement out of a few, all revolving around software ergonomic. This one concern the red eye reduction. When you have a picture with red eye, the first thing that come to mind to correct it is to click the red eye correction button and select the eye. On F-Spot it is the other way around. You need to first select an area and then apply a tool. So what user are doing is: - clicking the tool - getting puzzled that it does not do what they expect - remembering to first select an area by pressing the mouse button, dragging it and releasing it - clicking the tool Too many click and a dragging action (for the area selection). Quite difficult for novice to computer. A new approach would be: - clicking the tool (pointer change to a cross) - clicking the middle of the eye Hop! the eye is corrected. Ok, I understand that the algorithm to detect the edge of the eye is then much more complexe... Perhaps, we could check if other open source project have already such an algorithm implemented.
F-Spot has moved to https://github.com/f-spot/f-spot/issues If this Bugzilla ticket is still valid in a recent version of F-Spot, please feel free to post this topic as a ticket in the F-Spot project on GitHub. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping as we are planning to shut down GNOME Bugzilla in favor of GNOME Gitlab.