[Digikam-devel] Re: Versioning marks

[Martin Klapetek]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 19:28, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> > I've been playing a little with how to properly indicate, that some
> images
> > have other versions. I've come up with two cases - the first case is when
> > you have only the last/current version visible and the rest is hidden and
> > the second case is when you have all the images visible regardless of
> > relation (there is an option for this hiding/showing)
> >
> > In the first case, I made a "stack" (or a pile if you will, see
> screenshot
> > 1) of images,
>
> - there is no (0px) spacing left in the upper and left edges of the pile.
> One
> pile element less?
>

Yes, I was thinking to either increase the spacing (not a good approach
really) or to do only two elements. Probably will go with two.


> - the main element border is lighter than the pile borders
>

I can't seem to find the color with which the main rectangle is painted, so
I used Qt::gray for the while. But they will definitely match at the end.


>
> > you can switch the images in the sidebar, that will set the
> > "current" flag to that switched image (please note that the other
> versions
> > are not hidden in this, this is still work-in-progress).
>
> When we implement this, as discussed, in the ImageFilterModel, we will be
> able, through some whitelisting, to "fan out" a pile dynamically
>

That's exactly what I was thinking :)


>
> >
> > In the second case, all images that belong into one relation are outlined
> > in the icon view. See screenshot 2.
>
> Is this drawn only when one item of the group is selected? The colors are
> suggestive of that. In any case, colors must be taken from the theme.
>

Yes, when you select any one image inside one relation cloud, all of them
gets outlined. The color is again just for testing purposes, but I wouldn't
use theme's color for selection, because then you won't easily recognize,
which image you have selected. So we should make it either
lighter/darker/more contrast/perhaps inverse?


>
> Is it possible to draw the "edges" (left side first picture, right side
> last
> picture of group) differently? Perhaps some rounded rects and or gradients.
> I'm not a designer, I can only say if I like something when I see it, I
> dont
> know how to code what I like in advance ;-)
>

I'd like to do something like that, to paint one polygon-thing around all of
the outlined images, but that would need some heavy "if-ing", also I'm not
sure if you can tell from one item that is being painted if the next item is
also in the group. But I will investigate this and we'll see.

Thanks for the input!

Marty
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