GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735603
Add a way so the user knows what online account a photo came from
Last modified: 2014-12-16 12:50:23 UTC
At the moment, all my photos - flickr/google are just shown together. It's difficult to see where a photo comes from. Is it possible to add some sort of icon over the photo like android phones sometimes do so the user can see what the source of a photo is: flickr/google/facebook/local?
You can filter based on the source using the searchbar dropdown. Isn't that enough for you?
(In reply to comment #1) > You can filter based on the source using the searchbar dropdown. Isn't that > enough for you? I hadn't even realised on could do this because well, you expect the search icon to be used to search for something specific - the way I use it in documents to find a specific file whose name or metadata I know, not to filter on the basis of source. Most images don't have proper names, so one doesn't quite look at using search at all. It's more "browse .. browse .. browse, oh! here it is!" I think the Ipad photo app, for example, has a panel where the various sources are listed that lets the user easily browse through them. When I select the different sources, it takes a couple of minutes to populate the list, and there isn't a timer or anything to tell the user that it's working in the background. A couple of times, I thought nothing was happening, then I left it for about 10 minutes and that's when the list came up. Photos in general is quite slow. Is that a bug worth filing too? It could be tracker related - every time I run photos tracker starts up and suffocates my system.
when it takes these minutes to populate, the cursor blinks in the search box as if it's expecting input, and the "load more" button comes up in the bottom. Photos don't come up by themselves for quite a while.
Debarshi, Do you think changing the icon to a filter[1] rather than a search, or a combination of the two to imply that this is where you both search for a document or filter your current list, would make it clearer? [1] https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/windows-8-metro-style/512/empty_filter.png
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > Photos in > general is quite slow. Is that a bug worth filing too? I know of a few things that can be improved - GEGL's rendering can be a bottleneck at times, GtkIconView performance issues. But I don't know which one of these is affecting you. > It could be tracker > related - every time I run photos tracker starts up and suffocates my system. Can you be a bit more specific. Is it tracker-store or tracker-miner-fs or tracker-extract? Worth filing a bug against tracker with details.
I agree too, especially considering how much is slow photos loading photos. So much that is unusable for the first minute at least.
Currently you can see the source indication in the properties dialog. We can also display local "on device" photos using the filter. Performance issues are a separate thing (very important, but irrelevant to this report). I wouldn't pollute the view with some overlays.