[Digikam-devel] [Bug 192413] Missing items from right-click search menu

DGardner dkde at gardnersworld.org
Tue May 12 20:35:33 BST 2009


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192413





--- Comment #4 from DGardner <dkde gardnersworld org>  2009-05-12 21:35:30 ---
I took another look at 0.10.0. When I upgraded, my 50 saved searches were
still there and there was no empty space on the list. As the context menu
still did not have "Create New Search..." on it, I assumed it was still
like 0.9.x. Now I like it even less. :-(

I looked at (or for) the search controls that Marcel referred to and couldn't
figure out what he was on about. There is no "Reset" button and there appears
to be no way to create a search ... until I typed into the search box and the
user interface changed as if by magic.

I think the current search panel fails one of the core KDE usability
principles:

  "Understandable: When the user uses the application for the first
  time, the user should be able to see quickly what it does and how
  to use it."

The documentation only shows the 0.9.x functionality. I cannot "see
quickly" (or at all) what the application does. I need to type here and
click there and poke around somewhere else to find out what is going on
because I cannot tell what to do or what is possible just by looking at
the user interface.

I never bothered with "simple" searches. I use tags and saved searches
exclusively to organise images. Albums folders are of no interest, as I
consider them to be a relic of the bad old days before digiKam's tagging
came along and solved most of my photo organisation problems. Thanks for
that, guys. (It would be nice to be able to organise my searches in a
hierarchy, though.)

That leaves me with a "simple search" interface that I never use that
just acts to reduce the number of saved searches I can view without
scrolling and that has a completely different, magically morphing user
interface to that for advanced searches. I guess I'll just use the
"Advanced Search..." button and then "Add Search Group" from now on.
It would be much cleaner and simpler for me to have no search input at
the top of the search panel and just right-click context menus available
all of the time. That would also fulfill another KDE usability principle:

  "Conformable to expectations: The application should be consistent
  throughout."

I'd add that it should be consistent with other applications, too. For
example, if I right-click on a file in Dolphin I still get the option
to create a file.

Perhaps the issue in digiKam stems from the difference between the Albums
panel and the Search panel. In the former, I can only create albums within
the existing tree, so right-clicking on empty space does not do anything.
However, in the latter, I am not adding anything to existing entries, so
right-clicking anywhere, even on empty space or existing entries, to add
to the list is perfectly reasonable.

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