Postr Category
Quick poll for Planet Gnome, and any other interested folks. Should Postr, my Flickr uploading applicaton, appear in the Graphics submenu on the panel, or the Internet submenu? Answers on a postcard to the usual address, or post a comment if you want. Thanks!
NP: Rideau, Tape
Posted by Henrik at Tue Apr 10 12:37:47 2007:
Internet, mos def. I associate the Graphics menu with editing and viewing stuff, which postr isn't really about
Posted by makuchaku at Tue Apr 10 12:54:18 2007:
I'd like to see it as an applet or something that sits in the context menu - select a few pics, right click & hit "Upload to FLickr" & the magic starts... :)
Posted by Luis Villa at Tue Apr 10 13:00:05 2007:
Posted by Dave Clayton at Tue Apr 10 13:10:52 2007:
Internet, dude. If I'm not mistaken its primary purpose is to upload stuff to a website (Flickr).
Failing that you can reach a compromise and upset everyone by putting it somewhere completely unexpected, like under a new branch called "Sausages".
Hope you had a groovy weekend, and look forward to seeing you sometime soon!
Posted by Jon Cooper at Tue Apr 10 13:17:56 2007:
Posted by Sergej at Tue Apr 10 13:20:47 2007:
Posted by jonner at Tue Apr 10 13:29:02 2007:
Failing that you can reach a compromise and upset everyone by putting it somewhere completely unexpected, like under a new branch called "Sausages".
Hope you had a groovy weekend, and look forward to seeing you sometime soon!
I was going to say 'graphics', but I've been won over by 'sausages'.
I don't really like the general concept of the 'internet' category except for a few specific things like web browsers and email clients. For anything else, it feels a bit like a catch-all bucket for unrelated applications that happen to do some things over the internet. I assume that eventually more and more applications will have 'internet' abilities. Are we going to gradually move everything into the internet category?
Also, what luis said.
Posted by Owen Taylor at Tue Apr 10 14:00:28 2007:
I don't really like the general concept of the 'internet' category except for a few specific things like web browsers and email clients. For anything else, it feels a bit like a catch-all bucket for unrelated applications that happen to do some things over the internet. I assume that eventually more and more applications will have 'internet' abilities. Are we going to gradually move everything into the internet category?
Also, what luis said.
I have to agree with jonner here, Internet is a technology artifact. What the user is doing is managing their photos and sharing them with their friends. If the networked games feature of gnome-games ever works well, we're not going to move all the games into the Internet menu...
Posted by michael schurter at Tue Apr 10 14:15:27 2007:
I'm with jonner and Owen: for most applications, networking is a feature, not a category.
Graphics +1
Now if Postr was for viewing/downloading photos off of Flickr... maybe Internets then...
Posted by Anders at Tue Apr 10 14:23:38 2007:
Graphics +1
Now if Postr was for viewing/downloading photos off of Flickr... maybe Internets then...
The same problem can be asked like:
Should my internet radio listening application be in "Internet" or "Sound & Video"?
Posted by Markus Bertheau at Tue Apr 10 14:50:37 2007:
Should my internet radio listening application be in "Internet" or "Sound & Video"?
I don't use the main menu. Make it available there, where my photos are :)
In two years 50% of all applications will be in the Internet menu, with more and more web applications popping up and gaining significant popularity. So we should probably get rid of it ;)
Posted by Søren Hauberg at Tue Apr 10 15:19:26 2007:
Posted by Søren Juul at Tue Apr 10 15:42:27 2007:
Posted by molgar at Tue Apr 10 16:26:09 2007:
Posted by RTLM at Tue Apr 10 17:12:45 2007:
In two years 50% of all applications will be in the Internet menu, with more and more web applications popping up and gaining significant popularity. So we should probably get rid of it ;)
My first reaction was it should live under graphics. I think that's were the layperson would look for it. It may be more correct to put it under Internet but I think its become a dumping ground for any app that could someday connect to the Internet.
I really like the idea nautilus plug-in to go with it. That would be the best case of all. Right click on an image, and you've got the option to upload it to Flickr!
Posted by Ross at Tue Apr 10 17:26:42 2007:
Posted by eelco at Tue Apr 10 17:42:20 2007:
I really like the idea nautilus plug-in to go with it. That would be the best case of all. Right click on an image, and you've got the option to upload it to Flickr!
I agree with Jonner and Owen, though i find the sausages option tempting. The problem is, the purpose of Graphics is not really as clear as Sound and Video. (You'd expect your mp3-players and videoplayers in Sound and Video, but Graphics is more about editing graphics than watching and organizing pictures. Pictures would be a better name. And Dia should be in Office.)
Besides, F-Spot is in Graphics, and i think Postr should be in the same menu.
Posted by Adam Petaccia at Tue Apr 10 19:35:51 2007:
Besides, F-Spot is in Graphics, and i think Postr should be in the same menu.
Most definately graphics. While it does have internet functionality, it doesn't manipulate your experience of the internet (you already have the photos), so it go under graphics.
Posted by Raphael at Wed Apr 11 08:12:58 2007:
Posted by Alex at Wed Apr 11 08:27:17 2007:
I'd have to say it's definitely in Internet. Flickr is essentially a picture blog. It doesn't belong in Graphics any more than blogging tools belong in Office.
And any chance it'll get extended to support Zooomr? I'm not a big fan of Flickr.
Posted by Ralph Giles at Mon May 14 20:11:55 2007:
And any chance it'll get extended to support Zooomr? I'm not a big fan of Flickr.
Graphics, because it's something you do with photos more than something you do with the internet.
The real answer, of course, is that this should be a feature accessible from inside gnome photo editing and management applications and not appear (by default) as a stand-alone Application menu item at all.
The real answer, of course, is that this should be a feature accessible from inside gnome photo editing and management applications and not appear (by default) as a stand-alone Application menu item at all.
