[Digikam-devel] extragear/graphics/digikam/utilities/cameragui

[Gilles Caulier]

On Monday 27 March 2006 11:14 pm, Sebastian Röder wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
>
> I have tested the improved cameragui and I like it very much.
>
> In my opinion however the "advanced settings" sidebar would be better on
> the right side (first tab, above "Properties"). My reasons:
>
> * This saves some space in the UI

Yes, after reflection and avanced test, i'm agree with you...

> * the Advanced Settings area doesn't look so lost on the right, grouped
> with the other sidebar tabs. It better sticks the users eye.

right.

> * I can not imagine a situation where a user might want to have two
> sidebars open (advanced setting & properties / metainfo).

Yes

> * It doesn't hurt to have them all three on the right cause properties
> isn't pure "info" either - there are also the control buttons (previous,
> next, ...) in this tab.
> * Having it as first one on the right gives a nice workflow:
>
> 1. Adjust the advanced settings if needed (e.g. rename images)
> 2. Navigate through the images with the buttons in properties (to be honest
> I do not know exactly what this tab might be for. Most people will use
> keyboard/mouse to browse the images and the infos given there a not very
> useful).
> 3. Decide which files to download based on the metainfo
> Conclusion: The whole process can be controled by working with the
> inferfaces on the right, working from the top to the bottom (finalizing the
> download with the buttons in the lower right corner)

ok. I will move left sidebar to the right.

>
> IMPORTANT:
>
> The metainfo tabs are empty on when a photo is selected in the "oberview".

I don't understand what you mean (:=))). Witch view exactly ?

> Only when you open the image in the image editor then you get the
> exif/makernote infos. It exif/makernote not yet implemented in the
> cameragui or is this a bug?

Cameragui, editor and main interface use the same implementation. The only 
difference with cameragui is with gphoto cameras, where all Exif metadata are 
extracted using a gphoto command. With any camera, the Exif info are empty. I 
suspect a bug in gphoto. I have the same problem with my old Olympus C3000Z 
camera. When you open a image into IE from camera interface, the file is 
donwloaded from camera to computer. The Exif info can be displayed properlly. 
If your camera is a Gphoto like, You can check the size of Exif info 
extracted by Gphoto to look on the console. There is a debug message like 
this :

Size of Exif metadata from camera = 8214

if size are small, like any bytes, gphoto failed to get Exif info from camera.

Note : this problem do not exist with USM mass storage camera !

>
> Little UI improvement recommendation: the animated circle in the lower
> right corner that show whether the UI is "bussy" is to small for the area
> with the digikam banner - there are gray stripes on the top/bottom of the
> animated graphic.

Hum, i can't see what you mean. Give me a little screenshot please...

>
> OK, that's the end of my little review.

Thanks for your constructive remarks.

Gilles