[Digikam-devel] Switch to central map view

[Gabriel Voicu]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Michael G. Hansen <mike at mghansen.de> wrote:

> On 08/21/2010 12:59 AM, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 19:26, Gabriel Voicu<ping.gabi at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> - Leave the switch between icon-view and preview-view as it is now and
> make
> >> the switch to map view to be a checkable tool button. When the button is
> >> checked, the map-view appears. When it is unchecked, the last view
> >> activates. This looks more clean and intuitive to me, because when the
> user
> >> will want to see photos on central map, he will just click that button.
> When
> >> he will want to go back to icon-view/preview-view he will uncheck it.
> >>
> >
> > I would personally go with this one. Something like the current 'View'
> > button. If you press that, it'll take you to big image view. So I'd place
> a
> > button 'Map view' next to it (between the View and Edit) and this would
> work
> > just as the 'View' or 'Edit' button. When you 'check' the button, the
> > view/edit is on, when you uncheck it, you're back to icon view. That way
> > seems the best for me as it keeps the UI flow consistent.
> >
> > Also, about the image groupping - it would be awesome if the group could
> > ungroup on a click instead of just change the image. Something like
> Google
> > Earth does. If you click the group, it is expanded in a way that it is
> > divided to smaller groups (if there is enough images, otherwise it's just
> > pictures itselves) placed around the original group position and all is
> > still connected with the original center point and it creates sort of a
> web.
> > And the expansion/collapsion is fully animated. See Google Earth for
> seeing
> > it in action ;)
>
> We currently support clicking on an image and then zooming in until the
> screen is filled by the grouped images - you have to click on the "Zoom
> button" on the far right.
>
>
> Hi guys,

Thank you all for tips, I will try to find a way to bring that nice widget
proposed by Aditya to digiKam. Reading from KOffice blog, it seems that I
should take a qtabwidget and use CSS styling to make it look like in the
picture. Martin,

Gabriel
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