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

[Gabriel Voicu]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Julien Narboux <jnarboux at narboux.fr> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I also vote for a pile of photos. Even if the first impression will be that
there is another album, when the user will put it's mouse over the pile, he
will figure out that  there are different versions of the same image.

Another proposal would be to have an icon/a small button on each thumbnail
that represents an image that has more versions. When someone clicks on that
icon/small button, a thumbnail with another version will replace the current
one.

Gabriel
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