[Digikam-devel] New UI mockup on KDE brainstorms

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/5/18 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> 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.


I'm agree with Andi there. For me this ss is a regression or a
miss-understood of current options available in control panel, to
customize digiKam iface.

I don't like background frame. It's overload interface. the most
important stuff in Icon view are items, not background.

Gilles

>
>
> 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
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