[Digikam-devel] Experimental : image preview on main interface

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Vendredi 16 Juin 2006 21:11, Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> Dnia piątek, 16 czerwca 2006 14:48, ord napisał:
> > Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > > I have make an experimental patch using QWidgetStack to embed into
> > > album collection area a new image preview. You toogle between preview
> > > and album view using F3.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Please, give me a feedback. Thanks in advance
> >
> > 1- I like it :-)
> > 2- quality of jpeg images(6MP) is quite bad on my machine ??? looks like
> > a very quick scaling
> > 3- having to click again on preview or use shortcut to quit preview
> > seems a bit awkward to me. I prefer gthumb like implementation with a
> > small "close preview" icon on the toolbar.
>
> Yes, better solution for exiting from preview mode is needed (I didn't
> test 2nd ver. of patch).

Well, just press again on F3, you toggle again on album view mode. Look like 
the Qt widget cache is very fast (lets F3 pressed...)

>
> > 4- prev /next should always be available in preview mode. having to
> > click on properties sidebar to see them is not exactly "intuitive" and
> > takes up too much screen space. I would put them on the main toolbar
> > space.
>
> They could be mistaken with album history buttons. Maybe change of
> interface:
>
> - hide album history buttons but allow to assign shortcuts to them, they
>   are advanced feature
> - move navigation in album buttons to prominent position: nice side
>   effect - more similarity in interface between Album view and Image
>   Editor.
>

Perhaps, but not for 0.9.0 because this will change too many part of the main 
digiKam implementation. My current patch have be done to not be intrusive 
against the current implementation.

Gilles