[Digikam-devel] New UI mockup on KDE brainstorms

[Andi Clemens]

Forgot to say that the "back to icon view" is also duplicated information. We 
already have this icon in the standard toolbar layout: "View".

Andi Clemens
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On Saturday 22 May 2010 08:23:25 Andi Clemens wrote:
> 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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> www.digikam.org
> 
> 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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