Archive for category Usability

Icon view in the Source List

Stephen “lostcookie” Griffiths recently started coding on PiTiVi, learning the codebase as he works through the PiTiVi Love list. He has done awesome work on the source list to implement an “icon view” mode and has managed to somehow not become insane while I pointed out all his mistakes and bugs :)

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10 GUI

Take a look at this video. Hmm, a nice, refreshing approach to human-computer-interaction.

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Single channel waveforms

Brandon committed a one-liner fix for bug 607614 today. Indeed, until now, if you inserted a 6-channels (5.1) clip into the timeline, you ended up with nonsense like this (as some called it, “corduroy waveforms”):

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Move playhead on click, modeless splitting, full-height playhead

This week, Brandon has been doing great work in polishing little bits of PiTiVi’s timeline workflow. Indeed, he has made a second attempt at implementing my “move playhead on click” paradigm, and merged his changes into PiTiVi’s master development branch.

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Themed ruler widget in PiTiVi

Edward released PiTiVi 0.13.3 today. Brandon recently spent some time working on the timeline’s ruler, and his changes are part of that release. So now, it looks like this:

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Performance vs usability

I had an idea to make Evolution display more human-readable/stuff-I-care-about-only sender information, but it was scrapped. It is sad when you hit technical roadblocks in technology (here, performance considerations) that trump usability (well, that and the fact that the devs were not too enthusiastic about the idea to begin with).

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Changer l’épaisseur des barres de défilement

Comme je suis masoschiste et que j’ai maintenant un grand bureau, j’ai décidé depuis de ne plus utiliser de souris (sauf en cas de nécessité) et d’utiliser le stylet de ma tablette graphique (wacom graphire) pour voir si c’est agréable. Ben étonnamment, on s’y habitue. Par contre, y’a toujours le problème qu’un stylet manque un peu de précision quand on doit faire un simple clic sur une petite cible.

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Toolbar items prioritization

As I requested, PiTiVi now has some of its toolbar buttons prioritized. This enhances usability by giving more importance and discoverability to more commonly used buttons. It now looks like this:

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Nouveau bureau ajustable

J’avais depuis longtemps en tête l’idée d’avoir un bureau à hauteur ajustable, surtout après avoir lu les excellents articles de Joel Spolsky sur l’environnement de travail de FogCreek [1] [2].

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Variable time stretching (ramping)

Here are some initial thoughts on how slow/fast motion video (with variable speed within a clip) could be designed in PiTiVi.

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