103591 - Improved Image Features

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Trudelle]

This is a tracking bug for planning and implementation of new feature work for
Netscape's MachV project. All plan/spec/design documents should be posted on
mozilla.org and discussed in the appropriate newsgroup(s), not here.  New
dependency bugs will be created for any subtasks. Please use this bug only for
discussing the plan itself, or to add links to any pertinent discussion elsewhere.

Proposed requirements:

    *  See IE 6 implementation as a starting point
    * Toolbar on hover when on image only pages allowing user to do things like
save image, send image in Mail, set image as wallpaper
    * Investigate possible third-party server tie-ins such as using image to
create a greeting card, invite, or publish image to a personal homepage 
    * Need UE input on what we can do to solve real end user problems here

Current engineering plan at http://mozilla.org/xpapps/MachVPlan/ImageMgt.html

Currently assigned to [e-mail] for planning/design.  
Implementation estimate: 3-10 days

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

Adding dep on my MachV schedule tracking bug, P2/096

Comment 2

[Stephen P. Morse]

Changing title of this report from "Image Management" to "Image Features".  We 
already have the concept of image management in mozilla (although not in 
netscape commercial) and it refers to image blocking.

Comment 3

[Bill Law]

r=law for the "Improved Image Management" plan at 
http://mozilla.org/xpapps/MachVPlan/ImageMgt.html.

Comments:

To show "My Pictures" (on Windows), I think we should add a new entry to 
the "special directories" (see 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpcom/io/nsSpecialSystemDirectory.h).  
I'm not sure that there's not a new interface with a .idl that replaced this 
one, but wherever that service is, "WIN_Pictures" or some such could be easily 
added.  There's a Win32 API, SHGetSpecialFolderLocation with a CSIDL argument 
of CSIDL_MYPICTURES.

Once you have an nsILocalFile for the folder, a call to its "reveal" method 
will open the folder.

Comment 4

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Thanks Bill, I was wondering about that.

Comment 5

[jag (Peter Annema)]

bryner agreed to take this one.

Comment 6

[Alex Bishop]

MSDN article about the IE6 implementation is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/misc/mypictures/mypictures_ovw.asp

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

->099

Comment 8

[Ben Ross]

Is there any reason why a *real* toolbar hasn't been considered for this
feature? Since it only applies (as I understand it) to pages only with an image,
couldn't we just have a toolbar that appears as necessary, like the Site
Navigation Bar? If it had the same options, it would be easy to turn it off if
you never used the features, and would give ample space for all the information
and options to be held.

Comment 9

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

Just to stick my nose in where it's not invited, I have yet to meet/speak
with/chat with/read an article by/etc. anyone who like's IE6's automatic image
resizing when viewing the image alone by default. As an option, I can see
ebefits, but not by default. It's A Bad Thing. Martha told me that just before
she went to Sing Sing. Everythign else is negotiable.

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".