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[Etienne Charlier <etienne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm not a ui design expert but I think there is too much "unrelated" info in 
one screen

What about a wizard like UI  ( Just have a look at the windows powertoy 
"Syntoy" [1])

- 1st screen choose parameters ( like you did in the new toolbar) then click 
next , maybe adding functionality to load a specific "profile" ( serialized 
preferences ) 

- 2nd screen: the current screen with the thumbnails

- 3rd screen: acutal download with progress bar

Not a full "functional spec", but I hope you'll get the idea ..

Just my 0.02€

Regards,
Etienne

[1] http://www.labo-microsoft.org/articles/win/synctoy/ ( in french but there 
are a lot of screenshots 
 

Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 02:14:04 Damon Lynch a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
> 
> A deficiency noted by several users (including myself) in the current
> user interface is that the option to automatically delete images or not
> when downloaded is buried in the preferences. For instance, it's easy to
> forget it's turned on, which is not good if once in a while you want to
> download images from your friend's camera. The "from" and "to" could be
> made clearer too.
> 
> The obvious solution is to create a toolbar, which I've done in a rough
> format:
> 
> New toolbar
> 
> I say it's rough because it currently doesn't work, in the sense that
> changing the values currently does nothing. It might not be clear, but
> "Auto Detect" is a pushbutton. If it's pressed, the "from" file chooser
> is disabled.
> 
> What do you all think? Do you think it is ugly or ok? If ugly, the
> challenge is to come up with something that looks better, doesn't take
> up a lot of room, and is obvious to the novice and the experienced user.
> 
> I do plan that the toolbar can be turned off via the View menu.
> 
> Damon