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Philippe Saint-Pierre | 13 Aug 2012 21:05
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Filtered PoseViews

Hello,

In several tickets, I can see that there are concerns (is the word too
strong?) about the usability of filtered views, mostly in situations
where you don't find a pose that you expected to see and forgot your
current view was being filtered.

A solution proposed was to display a different background color in
such views.  Another solution I'm proposing (maybe I should actually
do a mockup..  I'll try my best to describe it clearly) is to 'ghost'
the pose that are filtered.  The ghosting effect would mostly be
outlining the icon, and making it completely transparent otherwise.
As for the widgets they would be almost totally blended with the
background color.

For the placement, the still 'opaque' icons would be listed first, a
bit like folders can be listed first in PoseViews.

The outlining could (I guess...) be obtained by enlarging the icon by
2 pixels, making all non transparent area black (or dark grey) and
then 'erasing' the original icon at the center or the new icon.

Comments welcome.

Philippe
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Axel Dörfler | 13 Aug 2012 21:48
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Re: Filtered PoseViews

On 13.08.2012 21:05, Philippe Saint-Pierre wrote:
> In several tickets, I can see that there are concerns (is the word too
> strong?) about the usability of filtered views, mostly in situations
> where you don't find a pose that you expected to see and forgot your
> current view was being filtered.
>
> A solution proposed was to display a different background color in
> such views.  Another solution I'm proposing (maybe I should actually
> do a mockup..  I'll try my best to describe it clearly) is to 'ghost'
> the pose that are filtered.  The ghosting effect would mostly be
> outlining the icon, and making it completely transparent otherwise.
> As for the widgets they would be almost totally blended with the
> background color.

I can imagine that this would work fine in icon mode, but...

> For the placement, the still 'opaque' icons would be listed first, a
> bit like folders can be listed first in PoseViews.

... in list view mode I think this would be rather strange. Seeing it in 
action would certainly help, though.
Another suggestion would be to add a much more visible overlay of the 
filter text, and/or add some kind of border around the pose view.

Bye,
    Axel.
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Philippe Saint-Pierre | 13 Aug 2012 22:21
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Re: Filtered PoseViews

> ... in list view mode I think this would be rather strange. Seeing it in
> action would certainly help, though.
> Another suggestion would be to add a much more visible overlay of the filter
> text, and/or add some kind of border around the pose view.

To help explain what I meant, here is a mockup :

http://improvisationgaspe.ca/images/mockup_ghost.png

You will notice I've changed the ghosting effect I was describing
because while trying to do it, I figured it wasn't looking nearly as
good as I thought it would.

Philippe
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Ryan Leavengood | 13 Aug 2012 22:40
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Re: Filtered PoseViews

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Philippe Saint-Pierre
<stpere@...> wrote:
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> To help explain what I meant, here is a mockup :
>
> http://improvisationgaspe.ca/images/mockup_ghost.png

I like it, though maybe that is a bit too faded. I almost didn't see
the bottom 4 items in this MacBook at the angle I had the screen.

> You will notice I've changed the ghosting effect I was describing
> because while trying to do it, I figured it wasn't looking nearly as
> good as I thought it would.

Fading the icon like in the above mockup should be considerably easier
anyhow. You can just add some methods to IconUtils for that, which
render an icon and then apply an alpha value. Then caching those in
Tracker (or wherever icons are cached) should help any performance
issues.

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Regards,
Ryan
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John Scipione | 13 Aug 2012 22:50
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Re: Filtered PoseViews

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ryan Leavengood
<leavengood@...> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Philippe Saint-Pierre
<stpere@...> wrote:
>>
>> To help explain what I meant, here is a mockup :
>>
>> http://improvisationgaspe.ca/images/mockup_ghost.png
>
> I like it, though maybe that is a bit too faded. I almost didn't see
> the bottom 4 items in this MacBook at the angle I had the screen.

The icons in that mockup are much too faded, I can barely even see them.
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Philippe Saint-Pierre | 13 Aug 2012 22:53
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Re: Filtered PoseViews

> The icons in that mockup are much too faded, I can barely even see them.

Oh well, that's the effect I was looking for :P  Currently they are
invisible, I wanted to give the idea to the viewer that there was
something they couldn't see right now.

But I concur that I could easily make them a tad more opaque.

Philippe
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