[Digikam-devel] New UI mockup on KDE brainstorms

[Andi Clemens]

I find this information useful, too. But I don't want it to be written over my 
image. This is so distracting that I'd rather turn off this feature than use  
it.
Why not simple put this information in the window title (like a lot of 
applications do) or in the statusbar?

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/5416/new2i.png

I know we discussed this before (without a result though), but why those 
overlay icons?
I'd say they are totally useless.
1. we already have navigation icons in the statusbar
2. we can go back to iconview by clicking the image
3. although rotating images might be a task from time to time, it is a rather 
seldom task nowadays. And even if I want to rotate my images like crazy (:-)), 
I can simply put the rotation actions in the toolbar (see the above 
screenshot).

All I can say is that I know a lot of people that really hate the look of 
digiKam 1.2.0 and they use Gwenview for viewing their images now.
The design we have right now is really confusing and overloaded.
Putting the text label in the window title (or statusbar) and removing the 
icon completely would help so much.


Andi Clemens
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On Tuesday 18 May 2010 08:42:27 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> The preview widget is under porting to pure Qt4 by Marcel in GSoC
> devel branch. After that we can add an option somewhere in Control
> panel to switch on/off this annotation.
> 
> For a lots of users which use raw, this annotation is important,
> especially to learn the program, and to know that we can load jpeg
> preview or Raw image data in preview area. The result is different and
> confuse users if no information is given. i remember a lots of report
> in user ML about this subject.
> 
> About Forum, i read a lots of report about F-spot which is better than
> digiKam. F-spot is more easy to handle than digiKam. Perhaps, but
> digiKam is more pro like iface. Also, let's me use f-spot more than 5
> mns, and i can crash it very quickly. This project is not serious for
> me.
> 
> Gilles
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