[Digikam-devel] SideBar support in ShowFoto and Image Editor
Rainer Krienke
rainer at krienke.org
Mon Aug 15 16:40:47 BST 2005
Am Montag, 15. August 2005 17:19 schrieb Joern Ahrens:
> On Monday 15 August 2005 17:11, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > Le Lundi 15 Août 2005 14:24, Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> > > To Rainer: data displayed here is rather vertical in nature, displaying
> > > it horizontally would be difficult. Maybe making tab floating?
I think this ist not true in all points. The histrogram view would be better
placed in a horizontal layout. For the exif data again more people would
probably prefer teh vertical layout since then you see more of these data at
a time. I as already described I would prefer the horizontal layout even for
EXIF, but this is my personal preference motivated by the space otherwise
wasted because of the 3:2 format of my photos.
> >
> > tab floating ? What is it ? (:=)))
>
> Detaching a view from the sidebar and displaying it in a separate window
> (like in kdevelop). But this wont be implemted, because it isn't
> userfriendly. Users (particularly newbies) tend to destroy their view when
> they can use the floating tabs. We had a long discussion about this option,
> when I added the sidebars to digikam and we decided against it.
>
> ... Jörn
Is there a way to make the sidebar tab draggable to vertical or horizontal
layout without detaching it? I think of this like the kicker in KDE which you
simply can drag at the top,bottom or left, right side of the screen changing
the layout from vertical to horizontal orientation. If this could be
implemented it would be the best of both worlds: No seperate windows that a
newbe could accidentally destroy but on the other hand an optimal layout that
can be choosen quickly depending on what has to be done (e.g. EXIF or
histogram) for a certain image with a certain aspect ratio.
For me personally a horizontal layout would be better for exif as well as for
the histogram. But I think for everybody its at least true, that a histogram
can be better displayed in landscape mode than in protrait mode of the
sidebar. So both layouts have some advantages and some disadvantages
depending on what you want to display in the sidebar, there is no clear
winner as I can see it. So why not leave this choice to the user? He knows
best.
Thanks
Rainer
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