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

[Andi Clemens]

Yes I agree, double click could be used for returning to album view (although 
gwenview goes fullscreen on double click)...

Andi Clemens
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On Saturday 30 January 2010 09:36:57 Julien Narboux wrote:
> 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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> > www.digikam.org
> >
> > 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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