[Digikam-devel] Image Properties SideBar implementation progress...

[Sebastian Röder]

Hello and sorry for "hijacking" the devel list as a normal digikam user, but 
my wish fits in so nicely in this topic ...

> > I still like the eye-candy of amarok's context tab, using html+css to
> > display contextual/general information. You just removed the general tab,
> > but it may be nice to display information in such a way about a single
> > image, multiple images or the whole main view (number of images, date
> > range, tags or albums in this group, e.g. all "People" tags, offering
> > some actions such as "Show slideshow", "Open in image editor", "Open in
> > <some description for showfoto>", "Search for similar images" etc.)
>
> Like Joern had explain it in previous thread, the current General tab bloat
> the GUI. We need to discut about this point with the team later...

What I would like so see in digikam even more is not another "context browser 
tab" but the way amarok makes the tabs look in general! For the 1.3 release 
they have hacked the sidebar to make all tags the same size thus covering an 
bigger area of the screen each and stopping that waste of empty scape below 
the tabs. This looks not even better, it is also better to read and the 
active tab is clearly highlited with the "highlight color" from the KDE color 
theme used. See this screeny for example:

http://amarok.kde.org/index.php?set_albumName=album03&id=16_G&option=com_gallery&Itemid=60&include=view_photo.php

The (possible) drawbacks: 

The amarok team has hacked this sidebar, thus it is using one code instead of 
the usual kde/qt clases (or what it's called in the developers speech). The 
amarok team might be so kind to tell you more if you are interessted.

I don't know if this would work for the sidebar on the right either cause 
amarok only has one ión the left.

It might look bad with less then three or four tabs cause they become to big.


Maybe you could dive into it a little and if you are interessted, maybe on 
could force to get this code into kde for general use since sidebars are very 
en vogue (and are very user friendly) now. I know there is sidebar code in 
kde, I'm speaking about the "improved amarok sidebar code".

I would be glad to hear something about it from the developers view.

OK, now I will continue to thread the digikam-devel list as "read-only" ;-) 
for users like me seeing all the great improvements be done ...

Thanks for that great app!