[Digikam-devel] Two suggestions.

[Tina Trillitzsch]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:10:29 +0200, Tom Albers <tomalbers at kde.nl>  
wrote:

> When dragging a tag from the right bar to an image, a menu popups  
> if i want to
> tag or abort. There are not more options then those two. I would  
> like to
> suggest removing the dialog and just tag that image. When doing a  
> lot of
> tagging in this way, i can imagen the popup is kind of irratating.

Without having had time to look at this myself, I'd say I agree with  
you. It seems unnecessary to ask (repeatedly at that) about  
something that is so easily undone (by simply unassigning the tag).
Very good point :)! I must have missed this issue, otherwise I would  
probably have suggested something similar.


> About point 1.2 Show which tags are already assigned, from
> http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~trilliti/digikam_tagging/main.html (all  
> other
> points have been taken care of btw). I suggest removing the tags  
> which are
> already assigned to the image. This way we don't have to struggle  
> with the
> problem of checkboxes / icons overlapping, and more important, it  
> is
> consistent with the remove tag behaviour, which only shows the  
> assigned tags.

I'm not sure this is a good solution. The user is kept a bit in the  
dark about the state of his tags that way. She wants to know which  
tags are already there, whichever way. I don't think we should take  
the possibility of seeing them directly away by hiding any hint  
about which tags actually exist. And I don't think it is enough that  
in thumbnail view you can see the list of assigned items under the  
image. When assigning a tag, you simply need to have _all_ of them  
in view to make your tagging decision.

As it happens, Sébastien Laoût, the developer of Basket, has the  
same problem in his app when tagging with the context menu. He is  
right now working on a solution to the overlapping of icons and  
checkboxes. You can look at the latest status of his patch in these  
screenshots:  
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~trilliti/bilder/checked_menuitems/Tags_Checks_New_Checkeds.png  
and  
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~trilliti/bilder/checked_menuitems/Tags_Checks_New_Empty.png.  
I have made another mockup that still improves on this idea a bit,  
by drawing empty checkboxes for unassinged tags and also aligning  
all text labels vertically, see it here:  
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~trilliti/bilder/checked_menuitems/Tags_Checks_boxed_mockup.png.  
Sébastien assured me that this can probably be realized (he draws  
the icons himself and uses the space where the icon used to be as a  
space for the checkmark).
He told me he would try to work it out and already proposed to  
forward his patch to you so you could also implement it in digikam  
:).

Regards,
Tina