[Digikam-devel] New UI mockup on KDE brainstorms

[Andi Clemens]

In my opinion the second one has several ideas that are not valid, at least 
for me:

1. You already can display only the filename if you want to, and display all 
the other information in the tooltip

2. Moving the search bar for the folder view into the status bar is very 
confusing, because now you don't see their relation anymore. You have two 
lineinput fields beside each other, both entitled with "search".

3. Remove one marble icon: Hmm these are two different panels. We should 
either add a magnifying glass two the left marble icon or create a totally new 
icon, but removing it is wrong. But maybe I misunderstood his point, and he 
was really only talking about the icon, not the panel.


About the first screenshot:
I already said that we need an option to turn off those overlays, especially 
the "full size preview" label. They are very annoying. I already read 
complains in some Linux forum that the new digiKam became "ugly" and that it 
throws annoying information at you :-) ...and that we don't go the KDE way, 
that allows to configure your application the way you want....

Well anyway the first screenshot is basically a visual improvement, I think it 
is ok. But we definitely need to provide an option to turn those overlays off 
again.

Andi Clemens
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On Tuesday 18 May 2010 01:13:27 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> maybe you've noticed already, I just found this new UI mockup for digiKam -
> http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea87932_page1 - especially the second
> one looks very nice. What do you think?
> 
> Marty