[Digikam-devel] Digikam menu usability improvements

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mercredi 24 Janvier 2007 18:35, Luka Renko a écrit :
> On Wednesday 24. of January 2007 12:30:49 Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > > 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)
>
> I have commited this for Digikam editor and Showfoto together with View
> menu change. I have also changed version in ui file as suggested by Achim
> on IRC. I still need to finish Full screen in Digikam (probably tonight).
>

ok

> > 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.
>
> OK, will look into this a bit more and try to propose something for post
> 0.9.1/0.1.3.

The solution is very simple. We must using the way than DigikamImagePlugins 
use to plug tools action in editor.

All kipi-plugins must be fixed (simple) and all kipi hosts too (more 
complicated)

>
> > > 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.
>
> Agreed - this may also impact l10n - should we care about this for minor
> (0.9.x) releases?

of course...

Gilles