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Public bug reported:

I want to suggest a few changes to the Fast Panorama Editor's interface
which will vastly improve usability and shorten time spent working in
it. Some parts of Hugin today in 2014 look like they've been designed
either many years ago and bits and pieces were kept being added on
without much concern for the overall appearance, or like it was designed
to run on a small-screen phone. Luckily this can all be quickly fixed
without much coding, just rearranging existing things.

Currently there are six tabs in the Fast Panorama Editor, and clicking through them is a waste of time. Let's fix this:
Assistant: input image control (projection, focal, sensor scale multiplier)
Preview: a bunch of preview settings.
Layout: it's a whole tab when in fact it is exactly one slider. A whole tab for a slider!
Projection: output image control (projection, FOV, guides).
Move/Drag: synonyms in the tab's name, y/p/r, again guides, center/fit/straighten.
Crop: manual, auto, again guides.

AT THE VERY LEAST let us move the images from the same tab we can change
projection and crop from!

To properly fix this, delete the tabs, they're a bad idea, they waste
screen space like crazy, and merge things.

Unified Fast Panorama Editor (UFPE).
Consists of three main elements: the image control panels (two of them, one for input, one for output), the preview, and the preview controls.

The first element, input/output image controls. Two panels (frames? not sure of the nomenclature in QT) at the top or on the left of the UFPE (depends on your screen aspect ratio, let them float so the user can choose), keep things small, don't waste space.
First panel is your source image panel:
  [+] to load images (no need for a 100 pixel long button!), [-] to remove currently selected image (click on it on the preview to select it).
  Source image projection selector combobox.
  Source image focal inputbox.
  Source image sensor size multiplier inputbox.
Second panel is your output image panel:
  Projection selector combobox.
  Projection parameters if any are needed (sliders for e.g. Panini)
  [Straighten] button.
  Yaw/pitch/roll numerical inputboxes of currently selected image or whole pano if none selected.
  Crop sub-panel
    [Fit inside] auto-crop button (i.e. no black edges).
    [Fit outside] auto-crop button (i.e. with black edges).
    Crop numerical inputboxes.

Second element, the main panorama preview. Click on an image to select
it. Click+drag to... drag it. Right-click for a context menu if needed.
ZOOM IN/OUT USING THE MOUSE; using the sliders as is currently needed is
highly inefficient :] Add [+][-] buttons

Third element, at the bottom of the window, is the preview control:
Exposure, photometrics, show CPs, identify, blabla, guides, grid, scale.

Everything on one screen, everything fits even on 1024x768, panels can
be detached and floated. Less than a day's work for someone familiar
with that window, because there is not much code to be written, just a
bunch of things to be moved and a whole bunch of code to delete.

** Affects: hugin
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: fpe gui ufpe

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Title:
  Fast panorama editor very cumbersome to use

Status in Hugin - Panorama Tools GUI:
  New

Bug description:
  I want to suggest a few changes to the Fast Panorama Editor's
  interface which will vastly improve usability and shorten time spent
  working in it. Some parts of Hugin today in 2014 look like they've
  been designed either many years ago and bits and pieces were kept
  being added on without much concern for the overall appearance, or
  like it was designed to run on a small-screen phone. Luckily this can
  all be quickly fixed without much coding, just rearranging existing
  things.

  Currently there are six tabs in the Fast Panorama Editor, and clicking through them is a waste of time. Let's fix this:
  Assistant: input image control (projection, focal, sensor scale multiplier)
  Preview: a bunch of preview settings.
  Layout: it's a whole tab when in fact it is exactly one slider. A whole tab for a slider!
  Projection: output image control (projection, FOV, guides).
  Move/Drag: synonyms in the tab's name, y/p/r, again guides, center/fit/straighten.
  Crop: manual, auto, again guides.

  AT THE VERY LEAST let us move the images from the same tab we can
  change projection and crop from!

  To properly fix this, delete the tabs, they're a bad idea, they waste
  screen space like crazy, and merge things.

  Unified Fast Panorama Editor (UFPE).
  Consists of three main elements: the image control panels (two of them, one for input, one for output), the preview, and the preview controls.

  The first element, input/output image controls. Two panels (frames? not sure of the nomenclature in QT) at the top or on the left of the UFPE (depends on your screen aspect ratio, let them float so the user can choose), keep things small, don't waste space.
  First panel is your source image panel:
    [+] to load images (no need for a 100 pixel long button!), [-] to remove currently selected image (click on it on the preview to select it).
    Source image projection selector combobox.
    Source image focal inputbox.
    Source image sensor size multiplier inputbox.
  Second panel is your output image panel:
    Projection selector combobox.
    Projection parameters if any are needed (sliders for e.g. Panini)
    [Straighten] button.
    Yaw/pitch/roll numerical inputboxes of currently selected image or whole pano if none selected.
    Crop sub-panel
      [Fit inside] auto-crop button (i.e. no black edges).
      [Fit outside] auto-crop button (i.e. with black edges).
      Crop numerical inputboxes.

  Second element, the main panorama preview. Click on an image to select
  it. Click+drag to... drag it. Right-click for a context menu if
  needed. ZOOM IN/OUT USING THE MOUSE; using the sliders as is currently
  needed is highly inefficient :] Add [+][-] buttons

  Third element, at the bottom of the window, is the preview control:
  Exposure, photometrics, show CPs, identify, blabla, guides, grid, scale.

  Everything on one screen, everything fits even on 1024x768, panels can
  be detached and floated. Less than a day's work for someone familiar
  with that window, because there is not much code to be written, just a
  bunch of things to be moved and a whole bunch of code to delete.

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