[Digikam-devel] New lighttable behavior

[Fabien]

Hi,

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

Yes, I remember. It was a remaining bug (or feature ;-) ) after a bug
fixed (see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150296)

>> 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.

This behavior looks good for me.

>> 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 gave it a try with the patch and it works fine.
Thanks.


BTW, it would be nice to add "Place onto Light Table" also in the
right-click menu. Right now, there's "Add..." but not "Place...".

--
Fabien