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Hello folks,

We are creating an image viewer for Maemo (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/statua/). This would be your change to affect the result.

If you want to participate on defining the use for the new image viewer could you post an answer to these questions:

1) Approximately how many images do you usually carry on your mobile device?
2) How do you use the images that you carry? Are you using the device as a storage place, so that images are always available. Show the recent holiday pictures to a friend, use them within creating content to web, emails... set them as a slideshow on your desk?
3) Do you usually edit the image content with photo management tools: Hue, saturation, contrast, rotation or with drawing tools: pen, fill, text?
4) Do you prefer simplicity over functionality?
5) Any wishes on what the application should provide?
6) Descripe yourself as a user, for example what kind of gadgets do you use, where do you get your images (camera, internet, friends...)

We appreciate all the feedback! Thank you already on sharing your views, thoughts and ideas!

1) Up to a couple of hundred.
2)
All of the above.
3) No, at least not on the mobile devices. At most I may crop it. Maybe rotate it.
4) Yes.
5) Zoom: This is nice when you have a large image, if it's fast. The one I've liked best in this respect is AcidImage for Palm.
6) Camera. Mobile phone. PDA. N800. Most pictures from camera. From phone only in an emergency.

I'm not sure, if this is aktually my workflow, becouse i own my tablet only tow week now.
But at this point i carry around 100 pic (copied from my phone to make roome for more pics)
Normaly (on my phone) i showed them to friends and resized/croped a frew of them to blog. As the display is bigger and better, i will switch to the tablet for doing this.

I havend found a good program for basic editing jet,
Basic means for me:
- resizing/cropping/kompression
- Grayscale/Sepia and Color/hue/saturation correction
- sharpen/soften
- Text overlay
- Red eye removement

1) Hundreds
2) Yes – all of that
3) Do you usually edit the image content with photo management tools: The option to do so would be very welcome
4) Do you prefer simplicity over functionality? Can we have both, maybe switchable from one to the other?
5) Any wishes on what the application should provide? Check out Quiver and see if that can be improved upon.
6) Where do you get your images: Camera, Internet, Friends

I look forward to your progress.

So long as the image editing tools are good enough, this could be interesting.

1) Approximately how many images do you usually carry on your mobile device?

None at the moment. But I would want to be able to keep an SD card full of images (on the N800).

2) How do you use the images that you carry?

I want to:

a) See and maybe edit photos taken on my digital camera or phone.

b) Look at and show photos that have been emailed to me.

3) Do you usually edit the image content with photo management tools: Hue, saturation, contrast, rotation or with drawing tools: pen, fill, text?


Photo management tools.

4) Do you prefer simplicity over functionality?

I want both. I don't want complexity.

5) Any wishes on what the application should provide?

Slideshow - zoom - crop - contrast/brightness/colours - save as - email

And last but not least - direct connection to camera using USB OTG.

6) Descripe yourself as a user, for example what kind of gadgets do you use, where do you get your images (camera, internet, friends...)

I use any gadget I can handle. Photos come from 2 digital cameras and a phone.

1) Hundreds
2) Sometimes I use them for my photos. Often they're (high resolution) scans from microfilms. For example, I currently have a stack of 2325x3307 photos on there. Each photo can be up to a megabyte compressed. My uses are largely academic: if I need to check a transcription, for example, I zoom all the way in. I've also taken them into libraries, and held the n800 with image against XIV-century manuscripts to compare handwriting.
3) Saturation, contrast (Levels would be good too), and rotation are must-haves.
4) Everyone wants both. Keep it simple, at least if you want a product that will make through development.
5) Look, when we need to edit images, most of us are going to use a full computer, but basic editing functionality on a portable device helps.
On the other hand, being able to view images on a portable device is very important. And sometimes we'll be getting them directly from cameras, and the images will have very high pixel counts. We want a viewer that can take any image we throw at it (within reason), and somehow make it work: that not skimping on the memory. The device is small, but our images aren't.
Also, there are going to be many processes that take a lot of time. If there's a way to monitor input (so that if I press a wrong button, I can back out, rather than waiting for the process to complete, then spending as much time undoing the process) during those processes, please do so. It's worth the extra cycles.

So, I want something with two modes:
A. Menu mode: across the top of the screen is a series of menus that allows us to do the usual image organizing actions, as well as viewing actions.
B. Full screen mode: here the focus needs to be on viewing images. Ideal for me would be:
Rocker switch: center button -- return to menu mode, + = zoom in, - = zoom out.
D Pad: Left = previous image in directory, Right = next image in directory. Up = Rotate image 90 degrees right, Down = rotate image 90 degrees left.
Cancel button: return to fit-to-screen zoom (default) (but don't change rotation)
Menu button: brings up the "menu mode" menu as a list.
Dragging on the screen: pan image (if you can throw a little inertia in there too, cool).

Anyway, that's ideal for me.

6. I abuse my electronic toys. I've taken over 20k photos on my aging digital camera. I have scan thousands of microfilmed pages. I have a computer at home that I use to manipulate the images, and place them on the n800 when I need something portable. I also use the n800 to login to our online repository and view the images we store there.

1) normally around 1000
2) i'm an artist who uses a device of this nature to carry work with me. it's easier to show people what you do than to try and explain
i also use it to carry family photos with me.
i also download several images that i may transfer to my desktop later.
3) i normally use a cropping tool and a rotation tool in gimp on my desktop. it would be good if the software allowed you to save a rotated or cropped image.
4) Do you prefer simplicity over functionality?
no
5) Any wishes on what the application should provide?
a beautiful interface with fresh icons
6) i am an artist who takes this device on the road and whips it out at meetings or interviews to show examples of my work.

One week to go... I need to start processing the information you have provided by wednesday next week (28th Nov).

Many thanks for you who have posted information here already!