[Digikam-devel] SideBar support in ShowFoto and Image Editor

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Lundi 15 Août 2005 08:12, Rainer Krienke a écrit :
> On Montag 15 August 2005 01:28, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > Le Dimanche 14 Août 2005 22:48, Caulier Gilles a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I had completed the SideBar support in ShowFoto in my computer. The old
> > > Image properties dialog informations have been removed and informations
> > > have been moved to tabs on the left of window :
> > >
> > > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/showfotowithsidebar.png
> > > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/showfotowithsidebar2.png
> > >
> > > The code need to be polished a little but, If you are agree, it's ready
> > > to commit on SVN.
> > >
> > > On this issue, the code can be ported after to Image editor and will
> > > solve this B.K.O wish : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109817
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
> I think basically this is a good approach and it solves my wish of beeing
> able to look at the EXIF data without always opening and closing a modal
> dialog. Thanks for this.
>
> I have a camera that makes photos in a 3:2 aspect ratio. Since my Monitor
> is 4:3 I always have black bars above and below the image in the
> imageeditor or in showfoto.
>
> These black bars are wasted space and it would be nice if I could use it
> for the tab-dispay. This way the photo itself could be displayed larger. At
> the moment with the tab at the left side it eats up quite a lot of space
> making the photo appear rather small but keeping the black bars above and
> below the photo because of the 3:2 versus 4:3 aspect ratio.

My current SideBar GUI implementation need to be optimized about space using 
by all widget. I will do it...

>
> Another point that would be helpful in my eyes would be an option that
> allows me to change the size of the font used for displaying eg EXIF data.
> This way the space used by the vertically aligned tab could be minimized
> according to the personal needs of the user.
>

We need to talk about this point with the team.

Gilles 
> Thanks
> Rainer