[Digikam-devel] [Bug 135048] easy comparing similar pictures using a lighttable

[Arnd Baecker]

This might be a quite good description:
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/mediapro/3_lighttable.php

and also 3 and 8 at:
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/11/01/top-ten-aperture-features.html
(BTW: the Loupe mentioned in 7 sounds great ;-).

It seems that a couple of the lighttable tools allow
for free form placement of images etc.
I am not sure if this is really the most important aspect,
as a normal arangement might be enough for the purpose.

However, it is not obvious, what the best realization would be;
some thoughts:
- select a bunch of images in the album view
- invoke the light-table.
  In this one the images shown as large as possible.
  Should this be
   a) a separate full-screen view?
   b) a view, embedded like the one obtained from F3?
   c) should it be (optionally) possible  to see
      the thumbnails as well (in a much smaller size?)
      (See e.g.
      http://www.apple.com/aperture/compare/compare.html)
- linked zooming and panning is important
  (to detect closed eyes, judge sharpness, ...)
- once zoomed in:
  a) do we need small scroll-bars at each image?
  b) A small pop-up thumb, in the lower right corner where
     the scroll-bars (would) meet, to navigate in the image
     (see gimp)
- there has to be a simple way to remove images from the lighttable
  (without deleting them and maybe also with deletion)
- rating should work

Best, Arnd