lehitoskin/ivy

UI/UX: Ability to jump to random image in current collection

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IonoclastBrigham commented

Proof-of-Concept @ IonoclastBrigham#1

Implementation notes and discussion:

  • The keyboard shortcut selected was ↑, because it was really convenient if you're already using the left/right arrows to browse around. It's a less straight-forward conceptual mapping though, and user's won't intuitively know that "up means random".
  • I just stuffed the button between left and right arrows, but it doesn't really need to be there if that might be confusing or cause user error.
  • The button's icon was chosen to match the ↑ keyboard shortcut, and to distinguish it from the left/right buttons. But as a glyph to symbolize what it's doing, it only make sense at all if you've already assimilated the fact that ↑ is the keyboard equivalent

Given these issues, it may make sense to move it into the menu with an accelerator shortcut like CTRL+R, or something. It could go under File, or a new View or Browse menu, maybe. On the other hand, I am tempted to keep the ↑ mapping in any case, just because it's so convenient.

lehitoskin commented

A View menu might be nice. We could put entires for random, first, and last in there.

lehitoskin commented

View-->

  • Next image
  • Previous image
  • First image
  • Last image
  • Random image
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IonoclastBrigham commented

Resolved by #22.