[Digikam-devel] Overlay buttons in preview mode and text label

[Julien Narboux]

Andi,

Yes there were a wish about panning using left mouse bouton -> which 
implies that left mouse button can not be used to go out from preview 
mode. I think this is the reason why Gilles added this small toolbar. I 
agree with you previous/next are not very usefull. I don't think we 
really need rotation icons either, having them on the thumbnails is 
enough IMHO.
The button to go out from preview mode is useful, but maybe we could use 
double click instead ?

I think the overlay text  label clarify things. It is a good temporary 
solution, the best solution would be that preview  first loads a reduced 
size preview and then loads in the background the full image. Some other 
photo management software do it like that. They even first load just  an 
upscaled version of the thumbnail, then a preview, then the full image.

By the way I don't think panning is the most important thing, maybe we 
could think about the ui/keys again before 1.1.0.
For example having the possibility to go next previous using 
mousewheel/arrows keys would be nice as well.

Maybe there could be several options, here are a few possibilities (we 
should add too many options):

A- When in thumbnail view
- double click ?
  1 open in editor
  2 open in preview
- simple click ?
 1 open in editor
 2 open in preview
B- When in preview mode
- double click ?
 1 open in editor
 2 go out from preview mode
 3 zoom to 100%/ zoom to fit
- simple click ?
 1 panning
 2 go out from preview mode
- mousewheel ?
 1 next- previous
 2 panning
 3 zoom in / out
- arrow keys
 1 next-previous
 2 panning

Another point related to this:
Qt 4.6 now supports multi touch. Does anyone has a linux device with  
supports multitouch ?

Julien

Andi Clemens a écrit :
> I was not able to follow digikam developement in the last weeks that much, so 
> maybe these controls are a user wish, but right now I have the following 
> issues with them, see 
> http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4185/overlaytextlabelproblem.png
>
> Andi Clemens
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>
> On Saturday 30 January 2010 08:42:22 Andi Clemens wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to turn off the overlay buttons and the text label in the
>>  image preview widget?
>> They are very distracting (at least for me), and I don't want to see them,
>> especially the text label.
>> It would be much better to have these controls not overlaying the image at
>> all, but maybe this is just my opinion :D
>>
>> I guess a lot of users will not like it and want to turn it off, but right
>>  now I have not found any option. Is it hidden somewhere else?
>> I looked in Settings->AlbumView...
>>
>> Andi
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