[Digikam-devel] New lighttable behavior

[Andi Clemens]

Hi all,

I have rewritten the lighttable a little bit, its behavior is somehow
strange and it also has a annoying bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160617

To fix this problem, I have changed the way images are added a little bit.
The patch can be found here:
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/temp/lighttable.patch

First of all, lets describe the current behavior.

WITHOUT PATCH:
1. drop image(s) in left pane:
the image will be displayed in the left pane

2. drop image(s) in right pane:
the image will be displayed in the left AND right pane

3. fill light table (F6):
the first image of the added images will be displayed in the left, the
second in the right pane. All the others are added to the thumbbar, of
course.

4. append images to light table (CTRL+F6):
the first image of the added images will be displayed in the left, the
second in the right pane. All the others are added to the thumbbar, of
course.
This behavior is strange I think, appended images should only go into
the thumbbar, not be displayed automatically

5. drop images in thumbbar:
the first image of the added images will be displayed in the left, the
second in the right pane. All the others are added to the thumbbar, of
course.
Again this behavior is strange, see #4 above.

WITH PATCH:
1. drop image(s) in left pane:
the image will be displayed in the left pane

2. drop image(s) in right pane:
the image will be displayed in the right pane

3. fill light table (F6):
the first image of the added images will be displayed in the left, the
second in the right pane. All the others are added to the thumbbar, of
course.

4. append images to light table (CTRL+F6):
Images are only appended to thumbbar, not displayed automatically.

5. drop images in thumbbar:
Images are only appended to thumbbar, not displayed automatically.


What do you think? It really works better now than before and the behavior
is much more logical.

To all of the "lighttable power users": Please test the new behavior and
compare it with the old one. What do you think?
If it is fine for you, we should be able to put this into the final 0.9.4
release.

I will provide a test tarball for 0.9.4-rc2 today, but without this patch.
First of all I want to know if the new behavior is ok with you all.

Andi