[Digikam-devel] visual indication of active filters?

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/2/1, Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>:
>
> Dnia Friday 01 of February 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > Red color is to indicate than something is wrong, dangerous, etc...
> >
> > This is not the case here. Is just to ping user than filters are active.
> > Orange is better for that... But it's just my viewpoint...
> >
> > Mik, Gerhard ?
>
> Nice idea. Few ideas for improvements.
>
> 1. Visual: lack of left-, top-margins looks ugly. LED should be centered
>    in status bar.


Ah, i'm happy to read these word. This is you Mik (:=)))

Yes, the widget is not centered... And this is not my fault. The widget come
from kdelibs and this is another one badly implemented. The widget drawing
method always use the top/left corner as reference. Content is never
centered like an usual widget...

I have fight against to find an alternative, but without rea



2. Still not sure about colors. For me most  logical would be:
>    - greyed out for inactive filters
>    - green/orange for active filters
>    - red when filters caused that there are no images in view
> 3. Some feedback: I suppose it would be good if user could saw what
>    filters are active without destroying their effect with mouse click.
>    Tooltip with list of active filters when hovering?
>
> m.
>
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