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

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 17:10:56 GMT 2010


Please, to add a new option, wait 1.1.0 release, because strings are
frozen for translators...

Gilles (playing with new Nokia N900 device to port digiKam to Mameo SDK (:=)))



2010/1/30 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> Yes I agree, double click could be used for returning to album view (although
> gwenview goes fullscreen on double click)...
>
> Andi Clemens
> -----------------
> www.digikam.org
>
> 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
>> > -----------------
>> > 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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