GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 469926
Illogical default ordering
Last modified: 2018-07-01 09:03:14 UTC
This bug has been filled here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/129139 "Binary package hint: f-spot By default, f-spot orders photos in reverse chronological order. However, slideshow goes in the forward direction, so when you try and view your photos in a slideshow, they are in reverse, too. You have to turn on reverse ordering, for the slideshow to work as expected." More comments: "I feel I should add a "me too" to this bug because the slideshow being in reverse chronological order just managed to confuse my mother. She's good at finding usability issues :) I think the problem is that it's not very obvious how to reverse the direction of the slideshow." Thanks.
*** Bug 472952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
as i wrote in Bug 472952 which was marked as duplicate, this bug is bigger than the slide show. From my perspective, the entire interface is unintiutive. pasting contents of my bug here: ------ Understand this may be different in other languages, but in English things read to the right. This includes representation of time on timelines (time moves forward to right). In F-spot: - the timeline has the most resent date at the Left (would expect on right) - the photos are arranged so the most resent photo is at the top left corner (would expect top right) - in full screen, changing photos to the most recent is to the left (would expect right - forward in time) This seems very unintuitive to an english speaker. Maybe this behavior should be an option. ------
It already is an option -- it's the default that's wrong. :-) The "View" menu also incorrectly refers to chronological order as "Reverse Order".
I don't see what's wrong with reverse chronological. Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and others show newest photos first.
It's pretty obvious to me that a slide show, at least, should be in chronological order. Otherwise it will show people taking cake out of their mouths, igniting cake candles by sucking at them, falling out of swimming pools, etc. And it's fairly obvious to me that a time slider in an LTR language should have earlier dates to the left of later ones. The current slider is backwards. Neither of those *necessarily* mean that the ordering of photos in the main pane is wrong. But I don't know how having a later-to-earlier main pane would make sense with an earlier-to-later slide show and time slider. How do those other photo tools handle this? Maybe someone could make a comparison chart with screenshots? If the motivation is to show the most recent photos by default, there's another way to do that: scroll to the bottom, not the top, of the main pane by default. Also scroll to the bottom whenever starting to import more photos.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584634
f-spot is not under active development anymore, has not seen code changes for five years, and saw its last tarball release in the year 2010. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/f-spot/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.