[Digikam-devel] Digikam menu usability improvements

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mardi 23 Janvier 2007 22:10, Luka Renko a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I would like to implement some usability improvements for digiKam and
> friends. I have started with some "low hanging fruit" and have attach two
> simple patches for DigiKam Editor and ShowFoto to have View menu on more
> appropriate location. See bug [1] for attached patches. I would like if one
> of the developers would review them, then I can commit them into KDE svn.

sound fine for me. I will take a look in your patch...

>
> I would also like to move "Full Screen Mode" to View menu (currently in
> settings) in all three applications and rename the option in DigiKam
> (currently named "Toggle Full Screen Mode" in Digikam). This would also
> make it consistent with Konqueror which also has this in View menu.

Fine also, but it sound like a KDE usability problem. Look like Konqueror have 
this problem too (KDE 3.5.x)

>
> Similar one would also be moving Slideshow to View menu - see [3]. I would
> really like to here if there are any objections to change this.
>

It's hard coded in digiKam. This is the problem.

kipi-plugins do not use the standard KDE menu gui using rc file. 
DigikamImagePlugins do it. It's not complicated to do it (and personally i'm 
agree with this change) but it require to fix all kipi hosts too. It's not a 
simple task.

There is already a file in B.K.O about this subject. If we fixing it, you can 
move we we want the kipi-plugins menu entry without to change anything in 
source code (XML-GUI files are used instead)

kipi-plugins 0.1.3 will be released by angelo at soon. After, we can discut 
and work on this problem in kde-imaging ML.

> Next, larger one is DigiKam menu structure, which I think is more
> complicated than other apps (Editor, ShowFoto) and needs a bit more
> thought. See [4].

Hum, not agree now. 0.9.1 need to be released before. After we can 
break/improve the editor menu structure if you want.

>
> Regards,
> Luka
>
> [1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140320
> [2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127617
> [3] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140303
> [4] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89365

Luka,

I'm agree with the "View" menu fix but...