In the early days of the Lumiera project, there was an extended debate regarding GUI concepts and -features, including many proposals from the community. Bearing in mind that we have meanwhile gained a clearer understanding what wee need to build for the GUI, this brainstorming phase is completed.
However, a more focused discussion regarding »Workflow« ensued in 2025.
- GUI Brainstorming
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We got a lot of proposed cool features. In order to channel this great influx of ideas, we set up a wiki page to allow basically open proposals. Joel Holdsworth, our GUI developer at that time, performed the herculean task to walk through this tremendous pile of entries, consolidate them and conduct a discussion. The GUI Brainstorming page documents the discussion and some conclusions. Several proposals were sorted out — it might be inspiring to look on the reasons why we rejected some proposals.
- GUI Proposals
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In addition, several people contributed complete or focussed concepts and design proposals
- Feature discussion
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Some topics spurred some heightened interest and (controversial) discussion
- Timeline Discussion
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In 2008, Joel reviewed all the available proposals and distilled a more coherent vision especially about the timeline, which certainly is at the heart of any video editor.
💡 Note the Conclusions by Joel Holdsworth as a summary.