[Digikam-devel] Image Properties SideBar progress (3) + New experimental ShowFoto layout...

[Caulier Gilles]

Hi all,

I had finalized the image properties sidebar implementation for the main 
interface, image editor and showfoto. The last screenshots are available at 
the same place :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/SideBar/

What's news : 

- disable properly all SideBar contents when no item are selected on main 
interface and when there is no image loaded in showfoto.
- hide all SideBar in showfoto when SlideShow is used.

The image properties implementaion is stable and ready for 0.8.1. The updated 
source code tarball is available at this url :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/digikam_with_sidebar.tar.gz

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In the second time, i had worked on showfoto. After that Tom have send a patch 
on this ML about a new menu entry to load all items from a folder, i had 
study this way.

The current showfoto implementation on my computer use a new experimental 
layout with :

- A thumbar horizontaly oriented and placed on the bottom, like M$ file 
explorer from win XP :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/OthersSoftware/Office_XP/IE_photoalbum.PNG

- A simple local directories browser on the left. The tab use a new widget 
based SuperImpose plugin widget and located to digikam/libs/dirselector. This 
widget remember the last folder used in preview showfoto session.

- The image properties SideBar staing on the right.

When a folder is selected on directories browser, all items from this one are 
loaded on showfoto ! Actually the implementation scan the folder to find all 
PNG, TIFF, and JPEG files. All items are loaded using a file time sorting. 
The patch from Tom have been include in this implementation and revamped a 
little (:=)))...

There are any screenshots here :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/ShowFoto/01.jpg
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/ShowFoto/02.jpg
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/ShowFoto/03.jpg

Please let's me hear your viewpoints about this experimental way. Thanks in 
advance...

Gilles Caulier