GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603002
F-Spot Photo Manager Edit buttons difficult to find
Last modified: 2018-07-01 08:54:52 UTC
I've been using F-Spot (on Ubuntu) on and off for a year to import photos from my camera and I never realized that it had the ability to do any sort of editing aside from rotating the image. The reason is that even after double-clicking a photo in F-Spot (to move to single image Editor mode), the "Edit" buttons that can be used to apply effects and adjust the photo's colors are hidden and can only be accessed by clicking on a drop-down menu on the left and selecting "Edit", where "Tags" is selected by default. Or long story short: it's too difficult for the "average user" to discover F-Spot Photo Manager's Edit menu/buttons. This is a usability issue. Currently using: Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, F-Spot 0.6.1.5 First reported here: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485099
The simplest thing to do would be to set the toolbar to be displayed by default. That way the user would be able to discover and switch to edit mode easier.
(In reply to comment #0) > Currently using: Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, F-Spot 0.6.1.5 "Currently using" means that you upgraded from a 0.5.x? A similar issue (Bug 557135) was solved time ago...
Created attachment 148528 [details] only few options visible Hmm , disregard my earlier comment. I tested on a guest sessions and the toolbar is displayed by default. [I'v been using fspot for a some time , so it might have been either i had changed the prefs or the prefs were changed during updates] But , I found an unusual behavior. Attaching screenshot. When i change the mode to "Edit" from the drop down [with no image selected] the edit sidepane shows only 3 options. After i select the image[single-click] too it only shows 3 images. But only when i double click the image , to bring up the image , all the rest of the options are displayed. Is this the intended behavior or is this a separate bug. If the options were not to be displayed when the image is not fully selected. it would be better to show the rest of the options and keep the buttons inactive. Not sure if this is what the reporter is mentioning , but should i file a separate bug for this?
(In reply to comment #3) > Not sure if this is what the reporter is mentioning , but should i file a > separate bug for this? yes, please do. I'm aware of it, but no bug was opened so far... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 557135 ***
I don't feel this bug is a duplicate of bug 557135. That bug states that the sidebar is not visible (too small) by default. That bug has been fixed and I'm able to see the the sidebar on a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit with F-Spot 0.6.1.5. My issue is that by default the sidebar displays the "Tags" menu. The "Edit" menu is hidden in a drop-down menu and is not easily discoverable by novice users. With the "Edit" menu being hidden, many novice users will never discover that F-spot even has editing capabilities. There is nothing in the rest of the application that indicates that an "Edit" functionality is available. I'm not sure what would be the best way to remedy this, but the Edit menu needs to become more prominent and easily discoverable. I feel this needs to be addressed because I used F-spot for over a year and never realized that it had editing capabilities. I just didn't see them and assumed that F-Spot lacked photo editing capabilities.
Ok, I guess the first comment was not very clear about the problem... So, not sure if it could really be the best solution, but Paul wrote an extension to display sidebar in TABS instead of dropdown. Have a look. See bug 584444.
That's an interesting approach. I think it actually would work fine (I'd be satisfied with it), but according to the website linked in that bug report, Tabbed Sidebar isn't working in F-Spot 0.7 git, and the author hasn't been able to get it working.
i totally agree with this bug. i've used f-spot heavily for years. i just recently upgraded to 0.6+ because of bugs in gentoo. it took me a week to find this bug to figure out where the edit tools were. in the very least the docs have to be updated.
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.