[ptx] thoughts for hugin UI, post 0.5

[Tijmen]

On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:52, Ian Wood wrote:
> > From: Rob Park
> >
> > On 5/27/05, Sebastian Nowozin <nowozin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> For most users it would be nicer to have some quality-profile, like
> >> "fast (for preview)", "fair" and "maximum quality (slow)" which takes
> >> care of those settings (and other related settings, for example in
> >> autopano-sift (whether to enable refinement, downscale resolution,
> >> etc.)
> >> and enblend (number of levels)).
> >
> > This is making me giddy with excitement ;)
> >
> > What if we took my idea, and extracted all the hugin internals into
> > external, standalone programs that took commandline switches and such.
> > Then we could easily make a simple frontend GUI that could easily
> > implement this "quality profiles" idea, and the profiles would store
> > settings for all enblend, autopano-sift, nona, all at once. So you
> > could say draft quality, and it would automatically choose to disable
> > refinement in autopano-sift, choose a smaller number of levels in
> > enblend, make the output to be scaled down a bit, use a faster/lower
> > quality interpolator in nona, etc. You could do that while working on
> > it, and then then when you're done, pick the "high quality" preset and
> > have it do the highest quality interpolator, maximum resolution, TIFF
> > output, lots of levels in enblend, etc etc etc. That'd be very, very
> > nice.
> >
> > ;)
> >
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>
> Sounds interesting. I'd go for one of two options:
>
> Option 1:
> A switch between draft quality (fast), medium and best quality (slow),
> then have a tab in the preferences for expert users to change the
> settings for each level,

I wouldn't go for hiding actual image quality settings in the preferences, 
because then the program becomes highly unattractive to the experienced user. 
I'd prefer something like a "custom settings" button which changes the form.

TIjmen