[Digikam-devel] New lighttable behavior

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/7/3 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> 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
>

Like i have already said to Andi in private, i'm agree with the new behaviour.

I would to have Fabien and Arnd viewpoint here especially, like they
have work on LT improvements in the pass.

Best

Gilles Caulier