[Digikam-devel] Fwd: Re: [Bug 110514] Enhanced selection, refactored histogram

[Joern Ahrens]

Well, I cannot understand, why we have digikam-devel...

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Subject: Re: [Bug 110514] Enhanced selection, refactored histogram
Date: Saturday 13 August 2005 15:41
From: Caulier Gilles <caulier.gilles at free.fr>
To: gsasha at cs.technion.ac.il
Cc: joern.ahrens at kdemail.net

Le Samedi 13 Août 2005 10:00, Alex Gontmakher a écrit :
> >Alex, please place these comment on B.K.O. I suspect a B.K.O server
> > shutdown when you have sent this mail.
>
> Ouch. Can't find it in my Sent: folder :(

Yes. it's important. Look like Alfons is alive in your B.K.O thread (:=))).
Cool...

> >I have _the_ solution about blended histogram implementation : using
> > sidebar in image editor instead image proprerties dialog (we removing
> > blended histogram feature from IE)
>
> Good. I actually thought along these lines as well. Thought you guys
> preferred the transparent one...

Blended histogram is an inerressing way but temporally for 0.7.x serie.
Normally SideBar integration on Image Editor have been planed during 0.8.x.
This way isn't limited to display histogram, but all image properties field :
file properties, Album properties, Exif, histogram, Comments & tags, and
others like IPTC and XMP (under implementation by Renchi and another
contributor - planed for 0.8.1 normally)

> Ok, with the way I refactored it, the changes to remove the transparent
> histogram from the Canvas should be minimal (and the amount of code to
> add it to the sidebar should be reasonable too).

Yes. Take a look in digikam/sidebar.cpp implementation, it's based on
KMultiTabBar. I think we must just re-implemnted on a SideBar dedicaced to IE
without album database depencies. Warning this code must running with
showfoto, and this one isn't liked with libdigikam.lo (showofoto is
independant of digikam like this).

SideBar come from Joern. I CC him if you want more information about.

> Now two things:
> 1. I think that most editing functions could be done via the sidebar
> (not unlike Photoshop Album). Maybe the plugins can be convinced to go
> there instead of just adding menus.

In a second time, like with 0.8.x serie for other editing options, and
 perhaps with DigikamImagePlugins during 0.9.x. In a first time we need to
 have a stable implementation displaying Image properties dialog tab... If we
 have more time perhaps Comments & tags dialog, but i'm not sure. It's an
 important changes, take a care (:=)))

> 2. If (when) X supports transparent windows, it can be a nice touch to
> let the sidebar windows undock, and become half-transparent.

I love this idea. We need to take a look about KDE theme implementation for
that.

> >Using SideBar is easy. It already used in digikam 0.8.0 main window for
> > search features. SideBar solves too this wish :
> >
> >http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109817
> >
> >We continue this discution on B.K.O
> >
> >Gilles

A nice day

Gilles

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