Ubuntu
gthumb package

Rotation options should not be in a submenu

Bug #120733 reported by Endolith on 2007-06-16

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gThumb	Invalid	Wishlist	gnome-bugs #475902
	gthumb (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gthumb

Currently there is a "Transform" menu, with four rotate and flip options in a submenu. These should just be part of the Image menu; there is plenty of room.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 16 13:43:21 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gthumb
Package: gthumb 3:2.10.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gthumb file:///home/omegatron/Friends/Eowyn/Photo001_0608.jpg
ProcCwd: /home/omegatron
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gthumb
Uname: Linux Inspiron 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Endolith (endolith) wrote on 2007-06-16:

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-08-23:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You think that they should be put in the Images menu just because there's enough space or some other strong reason? because it doesn't make too much sense for me moving it just because there's space. thanks.

Changed in gthumb:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Incomplete

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Endolith (endolith) wrote on 2007-08-23:

Yes, because there's enough space. It's like making a submenu with only one option inside. Why make the user click twice for something as commonly used as this?

See the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines for similar sentiment:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-types.html#menu-type-submenu

Guidelines
* Use submenus sparingly, as they are physically difficult to navigate and make it harder to find and reach the items they contain.
* Do not create submenus with fewer than three items, unless the items are added dynamically (for example the File->New Tab submenu in gnome-terminal).
* Do not nest submenus within submenus. More than two levels of hierarchy are difficult to memorize and navigate.

There are four items, so it's a borderline case, but I think it should not be a submenu.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-09-11:

Ok, will forward upstream, thanks for your comments.

Changed in gthumb:
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-09-12

Changed in gthumb:
status:	Unknown → New

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote on 2007-09-16:

I just want to say that I support this RFE. I use this feature often and don't understand why the extra submenu is needed. Rather than ask "should we move it just because there's space" the developers could have asked earlier "should we move it to a submenu, we have space to leave it in 'Image'".

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mjc (mjc-avtechpulse) wrote on 2007-09-16:

It's a bit more complicated than that. The "Transform" submenu should be removed entirely, to be replaced by the Tools > Rotate Images function - because that one is lossless for jpegs.

The image-menu functions do not require an immediate save, but the tools-menu ones do, so upstream gnome bug 376308 needs to be resolved first.

- Mike

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-09-17

Changed in gthumb:
status:	New → Invalid

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Endolith (endolith) wrote on 2007-10-06:

In fact, where are there two separate rotate options?? There's a lossless rotate under the tools menu that requires way too many clicks, and a lossy rotate under image --> transform that requires too many clicks. There must be a bug filed about this already...

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Endolith (endolith) wrote on 2007-10-06:

Should this be tracking http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452785 instead?