[Digikam-devel] How to mark image versioning in main album view?

[Julien Narboux]

Le 03/08/2010 09:54, Martin Klapetek a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Me and Marcel are now thinking about how to let the user know, that he 
> has several other versions of the same image present - in the album 
> view. We're not quite sure what would be the best for the user, so 
> we're asking for your opinions.
>
> Now there is a little icon (22x22) painted over the thumbnail's 
> bottom-right corner with svn_switch KIcon. I personally dislike this 
> icon, but it's the best suited in Oxygen theme.
>
> Next proposal puts the versions on a pile - the top one is just like 
> it is now, but below it there are other images slightly rotated, just 
> like a pile of photos. With this is related another suggestion, 
> instead of the randomly-like-rotated-pile-of-images, there are just 
> blank rectangles painted behind the main thumnbail, each one slightly 
> moved to top-left, so this looks like an ordered pile. But these two 
> may be too confusing for the user as the first impression could be 
> that it is an album or something (which it kind of is, but...).
>
> Next proposal is just a small emblem with either ">>" or "v" in it, to 
> indicate, that there are more versions of the same image.
>
> And the last, show nothing at all. There is a sidebar for image 
> versions where all the versions will be displayed all the time, so the 
> indication in album view could be just left out.
>
> Please, what do you think? Let us hear your opinions and ideas :)
>
> Martin & Marcel
>    

Hi,

I look forward for Digikam 2.0, all this sounds very nice !

I vote for a pile of photos. When mouse is over the pile all the 
thumbnails of the pile could be shown.

Julien