[Digikam-devel] New icon view

[Matthias Welwarsky]

On Saturday 16 May 2009 18:00:23 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as of today the main icon view has been replaced with the new
> implementation that has been under development for quite some time.
> I have taken care to go through the old code and port every single feature,
> but there is a lot of new code, so expect bugs and regressions.
> If you are running from current svn and find such a bug until beta1, please
> report it here shortly by mail, no need to flood b.k.o. I have not yet
> tested the majority of features, but will do in the next days.
>
> Issues:
> - Speed. (Talking about the 25000 pictures in the view situation). The idea
> is to make things faster. May things have become slower? They may. I have
> already eliminated performance issues with KCategorizedView. More to come.
> It seems that the view is the limiting factor and the model is well
> optimized. - The rate-on-hover feature is waiting to be ported
> - When new images are added in the background, currently the whole album is
> reloaded - incremental update is a missing feature.
>
> Marcel

Some problems here navigating the view with Arrow buttons: If you select 
images with Shift plus Arrow buttons, you cannot cross the end of a row with 
left/right arrows. Up/Down arrows seem to work.

Deleted images sometimes don't disappear from the view.

Metadata update when navigating pictures is slower than before and seems to 
block the navigation. Is this now handled synchronously?

Lots of flickering when deleting images (full repaints, view is erased and then 
completely redrawn).