[Digikam-devel] [Bug 166622] Confusing Add Images use

[Dotan Cohen]

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------- Additional Comments From kde-2 dotancohen com  2008-07-16 12:23 -------
> No. We don't need a separate window to host a progress bar. this
> last one is must be hosted to statusbar to be homogenous with all
> other main window in digiKam (for ex, editor or album gui)

Those other windows don't have activities that take time to finish. Well, actually, they do: the Rebuild Thumbnails activity (Which has a popup progress bar that stays at 100% when done).



> See it the other way around: If no progress bar is there, you
> are done

That is not very intuitive for users.



I'll now propose a more general solution, and interface change. The way digikam now works is that the main window has two functions:
1) Thumbnails mode
2) View mode

Other modes,such as the Image Editor and Import, are handled in popup windows. How about incorporating these popup windows into the main Digikam window, which would now have four modes:
1) Thumbnails mode
2) View mode
3) Image Editor mode
4) Import mode

In import mode, the progress bar would pop up just like the Rebuild Thumbnails progress bar pops up.