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[Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>]

The good thing about Igor is that he is not a developer (except of
course for the excellent icons ;-)), but an end user from the first
hour. So he thinks more like a designer. Besides graphic profesionals,
the target audience for Phatch also includes for whom programs like
Gimp, Fusion 6 or Photoshop are too difficult. So we should keep the
organisation of actions as simple as possible. The tags should be the
best organisation of the *current* actions. Juho, I really appreciate
your ambition with Phatch, but I prefer not to add categories/tags
with only entrance or todo items. This feels a bit like an "under
construction homepage". Of course Phatch is in constant evolution and
will continue to grow, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't present
Phatch as a polished release.

So I feel Juho that your logic is more based on the content of the
actions. I prefer more to see the best organisation of the current
actions. This means a limited set of tags with a roughly equal
distribution of actions. I think Igors setup is a good base for this.
Only I feel that there might be some overlap. For example I would put
the transform filters also under transform. Filters is a very generic
name, so if some filters relate to specific categories already present
in Phatch we should also link them there. Otherwise filters feels for
me too much like the "left overs".

Juho and Igor, thanks a lot for your input! I'm curious for Nadia's reaction.

Best regards,

Stani

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Admiror Design
Studio<admirorns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> @Juho Vepsäläinen
>
> You make very nice organisation of actions. I only dislike Input, FIle and
> Output categories. I think these actions can be put under File category.
> Lesser number of categories will be more ease to use than bigger number.
>
> Filters can be organise with category droplist system:
>
> File (link)
> Transform (link)
> Color (link)
> -----------------------
> Filters
>    Blur (link)
>    Noise (link)
>    Distort (link)
> ------------------------
> Plugins (link)
>
>
> Tagging system Phatch currently is using is great, because it is possible to
> have action which user wont be sure where to search. But again, if a lot of
> actions belong to more than 1 category, than is questionable need for
> categories because everything can be found everywhere. Having actions in
> more than one category should be avoid if possible, and be used only for
> special cases.
>
> Regards,
> Igor Kekeljevic
>
>
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