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[Bug 1185774] Re: [Enhancement] Allow us to click on avatar to see it in its original size when visiting a profile

 

** Description changed:

  Would be cool, when we visit a profile, to allow us to click on the
  profile's avatar to see it in its original size.
  
  => See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8kRH5Ao.png
  (by the way, I love the look of image preview there [the top bar of image preview is a little bit transparent by the way] ; can be cool to have something esthetic like that for Birdie too)
  
  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE IMAGES PREVIEW IN BIRDIE
  --
  P.S.: You can maybe create a new function (or reuse a current if already presents) to manage uniformly all the images preview in Birdie. This may include images preview in tweets (YouTube videos too in fact), avatar preview in profiles, etc.
  ---
  
  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE IMAGES PREVIEW IN ALL ELEMENTARY APPLICATIONS BY ADDING THIS FUNCTION IN THE GRANITE FRAMEWORK + USING THAT IN ELEMENTARY ITSELF #API
  --
  P.P.S.: By the way, you can see on this screenshot (OS X), that the design of the image preview is strictly identical with the "Quick Look" feature of local files on HDD of OS X. Seems that OS X have a system API for File Preview that dev can reuse probably (either for local files/images or remote by downloading them in cache before probably). Can be good maybe to have a same nice uniformized/standardized user experience by coding that in the Granite framework itself, for all Elementary applications then. API that Elementary should be using itself too, for a potential "Quick Look" feature added (if not already presents) that can be triggered with the SPACE BAR key too, as on OS X, to preview quickly local files.
  
  => For info, Quick Look can preview not only many image formats, but
  also audio (.wav, .mp3, etc.), videos (.mov, etc.), documents (.doc,
  .xls, .pps, etc.). Some projects already exist about that for GNU/Linux
  (search for "quick look ubuntu" on Google), but not a nice API that can
  even become, as a bonus, a standard on GNU/Linux (if many distro take
  that component from your Elementary project :^)). But in any ways, a
  good thing for the user experience of Elementary users at least.
  
  => Related screenshots (found on Web):
  [Image Preview] http://www.mactips.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/mt-quick-look-041.jpg
  [Image Preview] http://mac.tgbus.com/macosx/features/images/quicklook_gallery08_20071016.jpg
  [Audio Preview] http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/LB5Audio.png
  [Video Preview] http://www.debutersurmac.com/tutoriels/images/IQuickLook-quicktime.jpg
  ---
  
  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE: CONCLUSION
  ---
  >>> So, either in Birdie only (to uniformly show all images preview in the program), in the Granite framework (to do the same on all applications of Elementary like in Geary to preview a audio/video/image file in attachments for example) or the best, used even more globally in Elementary (as a damn good nice global system API that all dev can reuse too for their files preview when detected as available on the machine). And for the latter case, maybe later in other distro that'll reuse your amazing API component by default in their distro. Else, that can be installed additionally (and therefore can becoming set as an install dependency for some programs, component that'll therefore be installed automatically when using apt-get to install some programs using this famous component, etc.).
  
- >>> Even if it's more easy to have a nice holistic experience on OS X (and in the Mac world in general) because of the fact that one society is behind (Apple) and ensures that, we can however build some uniformized/standardized behaviors at a bottom level (Birdie only) and progressively, IF it pleases others, having these behaviors in a more top level (Granite based applications, Elementary global API, the latter reused by other distro in their system and/or used by dev in their programs as a dependent component that'll be installed too, etc.).
+ >>> Even if it's more easy to have a nice holistic experience on OS X
+ (and in the Mac world in general) because of the fact that one society
+ is behind (Apple) and ensures that, we can however build some
+ uniformized/standardized behaviors at a bottom level (Birdie only) and
+ progressively, IF it pleases others, having these behaviors in a more
+ top level (Granite based applications, Elementary global API, the latter
+ reused by other distro in their system and/or used by dev in their
+ programs as a dependent component that'll be installed too, etc.).
+ 
+ >>> [EDIT / RECENTLY ADDED] In addition to have a homogeneous quick files preview code, this allows to stylize the files preview system globally too, as we've notify-osd for notifications system (unified system too, customizable too). Could be cool through to let the user customize that through a "FilesPreviewComponentName-GUI" package (or at least by using dconf-editor to set the theme name or path used), by using themes (ideally, with multiple themes originally supplied, and with the possibility to easily create new themes by anyone or almost) to fit even more with our current desktop theme for example. Distro builder will of course be the first to use that tool, to set their global user experience concerning the esthetic of that for their distro. Or they'll at least provide the theme put in the correct path and set the dconf-editor appropriate value so, if no GUI available to manage that stuff.
  ---
  
  TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
  OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (with Cinnamon)
  Birdie version used: the r244 from the DAILY repository

** Description changed:

  Would be cool, when we visit a profile, to allow us to click on the
  profile's avatar to see it in its original size.
  
  => See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8kRH5Ao.png
  (by the way, I love the look of image preview there [the top bar of image preview is a little bit transparent by the way] ; can be cool to have something esthetic like that for Birdie too)
  
  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE IMAGES PREVIEW IN BIRDIE
  --
  P.S.: You can maybe create a new function (or reuse a current if already presents) to manage uniformly all the images preview in Birdie. This may include images preview in tweets (YouTube videos too in fact), avatar preview in profiles, etc.
  ---
  
  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE IMAGES PREVIEW IN ALL ELEMENTARY APPLICATIONS BY ADDING THIS FUNCTION IN THE GRANITE FRAMEWORK + USING THAT IN ELEMENTARY ITSELF #API
  --
  P.P.S.: By the way, you can see on this screenshot (OS X), that the design of the image preview is strictly identical with the "Quick Look" feature of local files on HDD of OS X. Seems that OS X have a system API for File Preview that dev can reuse probably (either for local files/images or remote by downloading them in cache before probably). Can be good maybe to have a same nice uniformized/standardized user experience by coding that in the Granite framework itself, for all Elementary applications then. API that Elementary should be using itself too, for a potential "Quick Look" feature added (if not already presents) that can be triggered with the SPACE BAR key too, as on OS X, to preview quickly local files.
  
  => For info, Quick Look can preview not only many image formats, but
  also audio (.wav, .mp3, etc.), videos (.mov, etc.), documents (.doc,
  .xls, .pps, etc.). Some projects already exist about that for GNU/Linux
  (search for "quick look ubuntu" on Google), but not a nice API that can
  even become, as a bonus, a standard on GNU/Linux (if many distro take
  that component from your Elementary project :^)). But in any ways, a
  good thing for the user experience of Elementary users at least.
  
  => Related screenshots (found on Web):
  [Image Preview] http://www.mactips.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/mt-quick-look-041.jpg
  [Image Preview] http://mac.tgbus.com/macosx/features/images/quicklook_gallery08_20071016.jpg
  [Audio Preview] http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/LB5Audio.png
  [Video Preview] http://www.debutersurmac.com/tutoriels/images/IQuickLook-quicktime.jpg
  ---
  
  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE: CONCLUSION
  ---
  >>> So, either in Birdie only (to uniformly show all images preview in the program), in the Granite framework (to do the same on all applications of Elementary like in Geary to preview a audio/video/image file in attachments for example) or the best, used even more globally in Elementary (as a damn good nice global system API that all dev can reuse too for their files preview when detected as available on the machine). And for the latter case, maybe later in other distro that'll reuse your amazing API component by default in their distro. Else, that can be installed additionally (and therefore can becoming set as an install dependency for some programs, component that'll therefore be installed automatically when using apt-get to install some programs using this famous component, etc.).
  
  >>> Even if it's more easy to have a nice holistic experience on OS X
  (and in the Mac world in general) because of the fact that one society
  is behind (Apple) and ensures that, we can however build some
  uniformized/standardized behaviors at a bottom level (Birdie only) and
  progressively, IF it pleases others, having these behaviors in a more
  top level (Granite based applications, Elementary global API, the latter
  reused by other distro in their system and/or used by dev in their
  programs as a dependent component that'll be installed too, etc.).
  
- >>> [EDIT / RECENTLY ADDED] In addition to have a homogeneous quick files preview code, this allows to stylize the files preview system globally too, as we've notify-osd for notifications system (unified system too, customizable too). Could be cool through to let the user customize that through a "FilesPreviewComponentName-GUI" package (or at least by using dconf-editor to set the theme name or path used), by using themes (ideally, with multiple themes originally supplied, and with the possibility to easily create new themes by anyone or almost) to fit even more with our current desktop theme for example. Distro builder will of course be the first to use that tool, to set their global user experience concerning the esthetic of that for their distro. Or they'll at least provide the theme put in the correct path and set the dconf-editor appropriate value so, if no GUI available to manage that stuff.
+ >>> [EDIT / RECENTLY ADDED] In addition to have a homogeneous quick files preview code, this allows to stylize the files preview system globally too, either concerning the design (style, transparency, etc.) or the effects (genie effect for the open/close action for example), as we've notify-osd for notifications system (unified system too, customizable too). Could be cool through to let the user customize that through a "FilesPreviewComponentName-GUI" package (or at least by using dconf-editor to set the theme name or path used), by using themes (ideally, with multiple themes originally supplied, and with the possibility to easily create new themes by anyone or almost) to fit even more with our current desktop theme for example. Distro builder will of course be the first to use that tool, to set their global user experience concerning the esthetic of that for their distro. Or they'll at least provide the theme put in the correct path and set the dconf-editor appropriate value so, if no GUI available to manage that stuff.
  ---
  
  TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
  OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (with Cinnamon)
  Birdie version used: the r244 from the DAILY repository

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Title:
  [Enhancement] Allow us to click on avatar to see it in its original
  size when visiting a profile

Status in Birdie:
  New

Bug description:
  Would be cool, when we visit a profile, to allow us to click on the
  profile's avatar to see it in its original size.

  => See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8kRH5Ao.png
  (by the way, I love the look of image preview there [the top bar of image preview is a little bit transparent by the way] ; can be cool to have something esthetic like that for Birdie too)

  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE IMAGES PREVIEW IN BIRDIE
  --
  P.S.: You can maybe create a new function (or reuse a current if already presents) to manage uniformly all the images preview in Birdie. This may include images preview in tweets (YouTube videos too in fact), avatar preview in profiles, etc.
  ---

  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE IMAGES PREVIEW IN ALL ELEMENTARY APPLICATIONS BY ADDING THIS FUNCTION IN THE GRANITE FRAMEWORK + USING THAT IN ELEMENTARY ITSELF #API
  --
  P.P.S.: By the way, you can see on this screenshot (OS X), that the design of the image preview is strictly identical with the "Quick Look" feature of local files on HDD of OS X. Seems that OS X have a system API for File Preview that dev can reuse probably (either for local files/images or remote by downloading them in cache before probably). Can be good maybe to have a same nice uniformized/standardized user experience by coding that in the Granite framework itself, for all Elementary applications then. API that Elementary should be using itself too, for a potential "Quick Look" feature added (if not already presents) that can be triggered with the SPACE BAR key too, as on OS X, to preview quickly local files.

  => For info, Quick Look can preview not only many image formats, but
  also audio (.wav, .mp3, etc.), videos (.mov, etc.), documents (.doc,
  .xls, .pps, etc.). Some projects already exist about that for
  GNU/Linux (search for "quick look ubuntu" on Google), but not a nice
  API that can even become, as a bonus, a standard on GNU/Linux (if many
  distro take that component from your Elementary project :^)). But in
  any ways, a good thing for the user experience of Elementary users at
  least.

  => Related screenshots (found on Web):
  [Image Preview] http://www.mactips.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/mt-quick-look-041.jpg
  [Image Preview] http://mac.tgbus.com/macosx/features/images/quicklook_gallery08_20071016.jpg
  [Audio Preview] http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/LB5Audio.png
  [Video Preview] http://www.debutersurmac.com/tutoriels/images/IQuickLook-quicktime.jpg
  ---

  ---
  UNIFORMIZE/STANDARDIZE: CONCLUSION
  ---
  >>> So, either in Birdie only (to uniformly show all images preview in the program), in the Granite framework (to do the same on all applications of Elementary like in Geary to preview a audio/video/image file in attachments for example) or the best, used even more globally in Elementary (as a damn good nice global system API that all dev can reuse too for their files preview when detected as available on the machine). And for the latter case, maybe later in other distro that'll reuse your amazing API component by default in their distro. Else, that can be installed additionally (and therefore can becoming set as an install dependency for some programs, component that'll therefore be installed automatically when using apt-get to install some programs using this famous component, etc.).

  >>> Even if it's more easy to have a nice holistic experience on OS X
  (and in the Mac world in general) because of the fact that one society
  is behind (Apple) and ensures that, we can however build some
  uniformized/standardized behaviors at a bottom level (Birdie only) and
  progressively, IF it pleases others, having these behaviors in a more
  top level (Granite based applications, Elementary global API, the
  latter reused by other distro in their system and/or used by dev in
  their programs as a dependent component that'll be installed too,
  etc.).

  >>> [EDIT / RECENTLY ADDED] In addition to have a homogeneous quick files preview code, this allows to stylize the files preview system globally too, either concerning the design (style, transparency, etc.) or the effects (genie effect for the open/close action for example), as we've notify-osd for notifications system (unified system too, customizable too). Could be cool through to let the user customize that through a "FilesPreviewComponentName-GUI" package (or at least by using dconf-editor to set the theme name or path used), by using themes (ideally, with multiple themes originally supplied, and with the possibility to easily create new themes by anyone or almost) to fit even more with our current desktop theme for example. Distro builder will of course be the first to use that tool, to set their global user experience concerning the esthetic of that for their distro. Or they'll at least provide the theme put in the correct path and set the dconf-editor appropriate value so, if no GUI available to manage that stuff.
  ---

  TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
  OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (with Cinnamon)
  Birdie version used: the r244 from the DAILY repository

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