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Fraser Speirs replied on November 17, 2009 22:44 to the problem "Left/Right split isn't sized correctly with OmniFocus" in Irradiated Software:

Ah, that's understood. I guess OmniFocus does that to keep the filter bar view from shrinking too much.

Better go get that 27" iMac then, eh?

Cheers!

Fraser Speirs reported a problem in Irradiated Software on November 17, 2009 22:21:

Left/Right split isn't sized correctly with OmniFocus

I'm using two windows in OmniFocus and I find that SizeUp isn't correctly laying them out when I send them right/left.

Screenshot: http://emberapp.com/fraserspeirs/imag...

Tiling them above and below works correctly.

Screenshot: http://emberapp.com/fraserspeirs/imag...

Anything I can do, or information I can send to the people at Omni?

Thanks for a great utility,
Fraser

Fraser Speirs replied on November 15, 2009 18:29 to the idea "ViewFinder filter" in Connected Flow:

The results you see in Viewfinder are the same results you'd see if you searched Flickr whilst not logged in.

Looking at improvements for the future.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 14, 2009 23:15 to the idea "Viewfinder feature requests and some usability issues" in Connected Flow:

Unfortunately, there's no Flickr API (yet?) for creating Galleries. The other problem with galleries - at least for Viewfinder's purposes - is that they're limited to 18 objects.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 13, 2009 15:34 to the idea "mark as uploaded" in Connected Flow:

FlickrExport for Aperture can do this, but iPhoto doesn't provide the necessary hooks for a plugin to do this.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 11, 2009 23:28 to the problem "Set Desktop, Reveal fail if downloaded file has been moved" in Connected Flow:

That _should_ work. Viewfinder uses the new file reference NSURL API in Snow Leopard, which is supposed to be always valid, except across reboots.

I've filed a bug to look at this.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 11, 2009 22:13 to the problem "Cached vs. re-downloaded images" in Connected Flow:

Viewfinder does this by design, but it's more of a social feature than a technical bug. Let me explain:

Certain members of the Flickr community are extremely sensitive about the idea of anyone 'downloading' their images and so mark them as non-downloadable. To show the images at all, though, Viewfinder has to download at least a small version.

I decided, for 1.0, that I would make Viewfinder aggressively expire its cache to avoid any perception of "enabling download and theft of images".

You and I might not agree that downloading-for-display constitutes theft, but I really didn't want Viewfinder's 1.0 release to be marred by a big Flickr ruckus about copyright violation.

I hope to be able to relax this in the future.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 11, 2009 21:07 to the idea "Viewfinder: Customize info that gets copied by "copy attribution command"" in Connected Flow:

Definitely noted for future work. Thanks.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 11, 2009 08:02 to the question "Some Metadata Not Being Included" in Connected Flow:

The only thing that FlickrExport picks up as tags is the Aperture keyword hierarchy. The Flickr site itself tries to read other tags from the file, such as the location metadata.

I _suspect_ that something might have changed or broken at Flickr when you were testing. If you could link me to a public photo on Flickr, that might shed some more light on the situation.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 09, 2009 08:11 to the question "What is FlickrExport doing with "Preparing image" when I want to upload my original photos?" in Connected Flow:

It's because of the way the iPhoto plugin system is designed to work. Plugins have to ask iPhoto to export an image for them, and then do whatever the plugin does - upload, in the case of FlickrExport.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 08, 2009 22:38 to the problem "FlickrExport dead to me" in Connected Flow:

I'm sorry you're unhappy with this situation. I'll refer you to an answer I previously wrote: http://gsfn.us/t/cub9

Fraser Speirs replied on November 08, 2009 22:15 to the question "Generate attribution data for used images" in Connected Flow:

Again, great feedback. I really want to avoid designing hooks into the entire world - it's a ton of effort and I would be unlikely to get them right unless I used the hooks personally.

I think what I'll aim for is one or two sensible common formats that people can build their own workflows around. The two that come to mind are plain text and XMP, but maybe RTF would be useful as a "ready-to-use" file.

Plenty to think about here.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 08, 2009 22:10 to the idea "Viewfinder feature requests and some usability issues" in Connected Flow:

All points noted and, wow, thanks for the memory about the postcards. That feels like a long time ago :-)

Fraser Speirs replied on November 08, 2009 09:28 to the question "Generate attribution data for used images" in Connected Flow:

Brilliant, brilliant feedback. Thank you. One thing that was suggested during the beta phase was that Viewfinder should write a 'sidecar' file of metadata along with a download. Does that sound like it would be useful?

If I did that, would it be important that the sidecar be XMP format, or would a plain text file work?

Fraser Speirs replied on November 07, 2009 20:42 to the idea "Viewfinder feature requests and some usability issues" in Connected Flow:

Hi Robert,

All points noted. The erasing current results when you hit Load More is an unfortunate bit of Flickr API design poking through. The search API isn't 'paged' (in the sense that I can't ask for the 'next 100' of a search). I can only re-run the search with a new upper limit.

When you mention 'save favorites', would the ability to mark something as a Flickr fave be enough, or do you want to curate local collections?

Fraser Speirs replied on November 07, 2009 15:06 to the idea "Add or Remove photos dynamically from within FlickrExport" in Connected Flow:

Unfortunately, this isn't possible with the way that iPhoto plugins work in iPhoto. They have to be modal dialogs.

A comment on the question "Viewfinder Searches are Limited" in Connected Flow:

I quite agree. The overarching rule for Viewfinder is "no more or less restrictive than a web browser". I just want to make sure that I keep the Flickr community on-side, so a step at a time. – Fraser Speirs, on November 06, 2009 23:55

Fraser Speirs replied on November 06, 2009 23:52 to the question "Clicking "Load More" downloads first 100 again?" in Connected Flow:

Yup, 500 is really useful but a bit slower than I'd like. I didn't want users to have a first impression of Viewfinder being sluggish.

Also, FYI, 500 is the maximum result set in any Flickr search.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 06, 2009 18:25 to the question "Viewfinder Searches are Limited" in Connected Flow:

Yes, authenticated searches in Viewfinder are roughly scheduled for version 1.5. I wanted to take a little time to get the design right, because there's a degree of sensitivity required in showing restricted photos alongside publicly-viewable photos in a tool that's designed to help people re-use photos.

Fraser Speirs replied on November 06, 2009 18:23 to the problem "Toolbar, Text-Only: Searchbox Disappears" in Connected Flow:

Yup, that's totally my fault. It's on the list to fix. Sorry!