UI Improvements/Suggestions

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Hello, really love your app. Finally an app close to IrfanView made it to the 
mac. You really made my day.

I'd like to suggest some improvements for the overall user interface/experience.
(I'm a nitpicker, this is criticism on a high level, so please don't get me 
wrong :-) )

1) Some elements are slightly misaligned/badly proportioned. E.g. the standard 
close/minimize... buttons don't match die other styles. It would be better to 
have smaller buttons that are perfectly (optically) centered. Have a look at 
the Quicktime Player as a reference for dark styles, you will notice the 
difference. I also recommend a 1pt smaller fontsize in the titlebar.

1b) Different styles require different icons. In the black style the 
fullscreen-button is almost not visible. Also have a look at the 
active/inactive states of the close/minimize... buttons... in the dark skins.

2) Unfortunately the icons inside the app don't match the OSX-style or a modern 
style at all. They look a little bit outdated. There are some great free Icons 
out there even for commercial use. I think metro-style icons (although 
originally designed for Win8) would make a good start (Folder, Zoom, Size, 
etc.). As mentioned before, they are free. And I would really love to have them 
at one (perceived) size(!).

3) The statusbar is great, but:

3a) I think you should make a decision, whether you are using icons or not. 
Some informations come along with an icon, others don't. I really like good 
icons, but it should be done consequently.

3b) It would be great to let the user make the decision in the prefs which 
information is relevant to him. For example: I don't need the color 
informations (YCbCr H*V*) nor the timestamp. So there is too much information 
which leads to bad legibility.

3d) Mh, I become repetitive. Too much information. Keep things even more 
simple. In the Main Window the filename is displayed twice. (title and 
statusbar). Its most likely an universal design guideline to not provide the 
same information several times. This also applies to the filetype. *.jpg in the 
title, JPEG & *.jpg in the statusbar. We need to find a better solution for 
this.

4) Background-color in fullscreen is stuck to the skin. It'd be great to choose 
it. Regular skin -> white bg in fullscreen. I guess black would be better for 
me :)

5) Black skin main window: Please don't use bright shadows/glow effects on 
typography (active title). Never ever do this. :-D

6) Usually I wouldn't recommend this, but since this app is 'just' an image 
viewer, I would give it a shot. Typography: try another font. Systemfonts are 
always quite good. But not necessarily good looking. Good Typography can make 
huge difference in the overall appearance. I could imagine FF Din or FF Din 
Round to be a good choice in this case. But this is just an idea.

respectfully yours
Patrick

Original issue reported on code.google.com by patrick....@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2013 at 11:56

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Please allow us to show or remove the status bar. I love your app because it's 
clean, but for viewing an image or photo I very rarely need to know it's 
information. If I need to, I just open "Show image information". The status bar 
it just disturbing, like something I want to clean/remove/get rid off, someone 
might like that, this is why an option to show/remove would be great.

Original comment by o...@okhei.com on 29 Aug 2013 at 1:30

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Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in the day. Some things I might 
like to do better, but this is as good as it gets for now.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2013 at 9:22

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