[Digikam-devel] Comments on Light Table

[Luis De la Parra]

Hello Gilles, hi all...

I just saw the light table's video you posted on the planet, so went right 
away and updated my svn-copy of digikam... 

wow. first of all: congrats. I think the light-table is coming along very nice 
and all the functionality needed for image comparison seems to be there 
already.  the only thing I didn't like is that the navigation between the 
images is kind of difficult/strange... I only tested it for a few minutes, so 
I guess you could get used to it. but at least to me it seems to be somewhat 
difficult to use.

I don't really see the point in the "navigate by pair" option, with the 
right-image becoming the left-image and the next image becoming the new left 
one...  but oh well, I guess I can just not use this function. BUT the one 
thing that I find annoying, is that page-up/page-down moves only the 
selection in the thumb-bar, but does not change the image in the table so I 
have to go and click the "put it on the right" button. It would be great if 
page-up/down (and left/right arrow) would change the image on the table 
automatically. (as it works on "pair-navigation", but only change 
the "selected" one, or the one on the right)

In case you are interested, take a look at this video.

http://idisk.mac.com/george_jardine-Public?view=web

just scroll down and look for  "20070418 Tutorial Podcast - Compare View + 
QD"..
(NOTE: you have to change the agent-identification in konqueror or use 
firefox)
It's 24 MB, and has a bit of blah-blah but it is worth it.  it shows the 
light-table in lightroom (called "compare mode") which has probably not more 
functionality than digikam, but it is (to me) easier to use.

I also think it would've been better to embed the light table in digikam 
instead of opening a new window. maybe it's just me, because everyone seems 
to find this ok (same goes for the editor)

... and finally... I took me a while to find out that middle-clicking on the 
image changes the mouse to the "hand"-tool to move the picture. is there a 
reason not to use just normal left-click to move the image around?

so. that's it for now.  keep up the good work!

cheers. luis