Re: Album hierarchie

> The problem is not the implementation. The biggest problem is that I
> can't visualize how it will work.

Hi Joe, you must be kidding? There are lots of tools which 
use hierarchical structures, and one of the most widely 
used is the Windows file explorer. If you set it to show 
"Miniatures" you will get a nice idea of an inuitive 
"look-and-feel". 

Of course, in the Pixory case you would rather select the 
"folder thumbnail" yourselves, and not display the four 
first pictures as Explorer does, but otherwise you could 
steal the whole idea?

May I also humbly remind you of my look-and-feel suggestions 
made August 20, 2003 (Title "Collected comments", comment #8), 
which I copy-paste below for your convenience. 

Note, however, that these comments where based on version 
2.something, and you might have changed the appearance since 
then. I wouldn't know about that, since I am running version 
2.12 until there is a version of Pixory which handles 
hierarachical albums...

BR
   /Gunnar

8) About hierarchical albums: Yes please! I saw that you are thinking
on how to handle the user interface, so here are some suggestions:
Currently when you are looking at an album you have the album title
(e.g. "My vacation") at the top left corner. You could easily(?) use
a recursive description style here, where each title is clickable. An
example with two sub-levels:

My vacation
__New York
____At the opera

To make this more consistent you could consider adding "Home",
or "Top", as the first line:

Home
__My vacation
____New York
______At the opera

This could be combined with an "up arrow icon". A minor negative side
of the idea of a recursive title display is that the picture area
will be slightly smaller, but I think that is a price most of us sub-
album fans will be ready to pay.

When looking inside an album with one or more sub-albums, I think
that you should mimic the behaviour of Windows Explorer; i.e. the
first entries are the cover thumbnails for the sub-albums (with the
same info and text as on the top level today), then the thumbnails of
the ordinary pictures (if any) follows. Maybe you could emphasize the
current top-level "shadow effect" for the sub-album thumbnails even
more, thus making it clear that these are sub-albums? Perhaps
a "double shadow" which gives the impression of multiple pictures?

I have seen that viewers using Pixory their first time often selects
the "house icon" when they in fact only wants to get from the single-
picture mode up one level (to the thumbnails). I THINK that this
could be due to the fact that in Windows Explorer you only have
an "up icon", not a "home icon", and in some way the viewers feel
that the "house icon" should take them up one level (towards "home")?

The "four squares icon" might be even more cumbersome to understand
for the viewer when you have sub-albums, and thus thumbnails at
several levels. You could consider skipping the "house icon" and
the "four squares icon" completely, having the "up arrow icon"
(together with the recursive title list) as the only ways to go
upwards?

If you go for an "up arrow icon", you might consider to use a
different symbol for the "download album" since the up- and down-
arrow will have completely different scopes. Maybe some kind
of "WinZip icon", or a "hard-disk icon" could be used? By the way,
you could consider a check-box in the download pop-up window,
specifying if only the current level pictures should be downloaded,
or if the complete tree should be downloaded.






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