MeMaker should support Drag and Drop of avatar preview
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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MeMaker |
Fix Committed
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Wishlist
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Dylan McCall |
Bug Description
Memaker currently does not make changing avatars as easy as it could. One nice way this could be fixed is the inclusion of drag & drop support. Many programs which have avatars support dragging images on to their avatar image selectors. Two programs which do this are gnome-about-me and Pidgin.
One program that supports dragging images to drop them in this way is The GIMP, with its image selector in the tool window. Notable in that one is how it seems to figure out where the image has been dropped and starts saving to there instead of the original source location. (Which is quite confusing in the case of that program, but could be a powerful feature for MeMaker!).
MeMaker could implement this drag & drop functionality with the user dragging the avatar preview. If the capability of directly manipulating features on an avatar is implemented, the handle could be moved to the side of the preview (possibly on a Frame container) rather than being the entire preview widget. By supporting drag & drop, MeMaker can have a highly integrated feel that remains completely future proof.
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assignee: | nobody → dylanmccall |
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importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
I like your idea. But it's not really a bug, rather, a feature. Could
you reimplement this as a blueprint rather than a bug? Thanks! We will
review this feature and accept or regect it for the 2.0 series when the
time comes. (Probably just before the Hardy release.)
None, the less, I totally agree. It's a great feature idea.
Jason Brower
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:52 +0000, Dylan McCall wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Memaker currently does not make changing avatars as easy as it could.
> One nice way this could be fixed is the inclusion of drag & drop
> support. Many programs which have avatars support dragging images on to
> their avatar image selectors. Two programs which do this are gnome-
> about-me and Pidgin.
>
> One program that supports dragging images to drop them in this way is
> The GIMP, with its image selector in the tool window. Notable in that
> one is how it seems to figure out where the image has been dropped and
> starts saving to there instead of the original source location. (Which
> is quite confusing in the case of that program, but could be a powerful
> feature for MeMaker!).
>
> MeMaker could implement this drag & drop functionality with the user
> dragging the avatar preview. If the capability of directly manipulating
> features on an avatar is implemented, the handle could be moved to the
> side of the preview (possibly on a Frame container) rather than being
> the entire preview widget. By supporting drag & drop, MeMaker can have a
> highly integrated feel that remains completely future proof.
>
> ** Affects: memaker
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>