Suggestion for 1.6

[Richard Wolff]

I think I can safely say that we are planning on improving upon the current
keyboard in 1.6.

Speaking of 1.6, I'd surely like a small improvement in photo(App): be able to
run a slideshow from a text list of images.

Rationale: It's extremely unlikely that the alphabetical order of the image
filenames in a collection from your recent vacation is the order that you
want to show the images. Yes, you can use the current software if these
images are copied to a new directory, and suitably renamed, but this goes
against everything you've learned about how to manage databases, and also
suggests that next, you'll want to banish links, desktop shortcuts, and the
like<g>.

Identified by a suitable extension, this file would contain either full path
names to each image or relative paths (doesn't really matter). Conceptually,
this only means replacing the current alphabetically sorted list that the
display software uses with one provided by the user. Note that images might
well not be in the directory that contains the image list.

Another approach would be to augment ecp with a new command:
ecp photoApp BUTTON_WAIT [timeout]
The return value would give which button had been pressed on the remote, or a
value of NONE if the timeout timer had expired. With this functionality, one
could prepare scripts to drive a slideshow with any desired image order, and
with the ability to go forwards and backwards within that order.

Richard

[Allyn Fratkin]

Post by Richard Wolff
Speaking of 1.6, I'd surely like a small improvement in photo(App): be able to
run a slideshow from a text list of images.

yes, please! think of it as a playlist for image directories.

i take a lot of photos and even though i generally don't rename
them from the exciting IMG_1234.JPG names that come from the
camera, i would like to be able to show a subset of images
when my friends come over.

another enhancement request: an option to sort images by file timestamp rather
than by name.

my wife and i both have digital cameras. sometimes we take
vacations with friends that also have digital cameras. when
images are sorted by name, all of one person's photos come
first, then the next person's, then the next person's.
sorting by time interleaves all of the images in proper chronological order.