[Digikam-devel] [Bug 192425] Star rating setting under thumbnails is a nuisance

[DGardner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192425





--- Comment #37 from DGardner <dkde gardnersworld org>  2009-11-12 16:44:50 ---
Sorry for harping on, but I have two more usability issues that I'd
like to report:

 5. When I mouse-over a thumbnail to set the rating and click on
    the wrong star (as I do), say the third one, the five stars
    shown in outline collapse to three stars and are re-centred
    in the thumbnail panel. If I want to correct my mistake and
    set the rating to two stars, my first instinct is to click on
    the second star, but, as described in 4. in my previous comment,
    I have to mouse-out-and-in to make the rating editable again.
    However, my second instinct is to mouse-out-and-in and return
    the mouse pointer to the position of the second star, but this
    star now moves to the left because I'm back to the 5-star edit
    mode, which re-centres the stars. The same problem occurs if
    I just see a rating that I want to change: I move the mouse
    pointer to the stars and the stars move left as I enter the
    thumbnail panel, so I have to move the mouse again. I think
    this "moving target" is a usability problem.

 6. When the stars are shown in the thumb-bar on the preview page,
    they can be hard to read, but if a contrasting colour were
    used to outline the stars (just like any mouse pointer since
    the 1970's), they would be easier to see. (Maybe I should open
    a different bug report for this.)

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