[Digikam-devel] Consistence between Albums, Dates and Tags

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/3/24, Frank Siegert <hugelmopf at web.de>:
>
> On the left hand side, digikam has three tabs (Albums, Dates, Tags), which
> all produce a tree of picture selections. Despite this similar task, those
> behave very differently in producing the thumbnail view. For example, some
> include pictures of sub-nodes, others do not, and grouping of the
> generated
> thumbnail view is not consistent either.
>
> There is a bug in b.k.o describing exactly this problem, and suggesting
> how
> it should work. I agree with all those suggestions:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140743
>   "more flexible and consistent grouping of icons"
>
> I am writing this mail, because I want to emphasize, that there are
> multiple
> bugs in b.k.o which are related to the above. Most of them would (should)
> be closed by its implementation:
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126871
>   "click on parent folder in tree should generate a reaction"
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128231
>   "A way to view pictures recursively in albums and sub-albums at the same
>    time would be cool"
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134389
>   "Sort images by date - even when spanning albums"
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138200
>   "Display all pictures when no tag is selected instead of no picture"
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140734
>   "allow collapsing albums in date/tag view"
>
> and maybe more which I missed.
>
> What do you think, is it possible to refactor the left sidebar and related
> issues, such as to have more consistence between the different sorting
> options (Albums, Dates, Tags)?


sure , but this cannot be done for 0.9.2 because there are a lots of changes
in this release. We will certainly take a look about this subject when Qt
4.0 port will be done (planed this summer)

Marcel, it fine for you ?

Gilles
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