[Digikam-devel] Switch to central map view

[Gabriel Voicu]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Gabriel Voicu <ping.gabi at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Michael G. Hansen <mike at mghansen.de>wrote:
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>> 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 ;)
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>> 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.
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>> Hi guys,
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> 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, are you sure you saw on planet kde that the widget has been
> added to kdelibs? I've searched but haven't found that information.
>
> Gabriel
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