[Digikam-devel] Re: Cleaning up the main toolbar

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> For me all is fine. About menu, the most bloated item is Image, with
> all plugin actions.

Yes. Perhaps some of them can go to the edit menu (especially those that do 
image editing more or less ;-) )

> 
> What's about Tags menu entry. It's lost ? This one is important and
> must be updated with all main option available from right sidebar
> (caption/tags pop-up menu)

I'm not sure about the Album and Tag specific entries. The problem is that 
there are 7 Album action (new, properties, open in..., metadata, delete) only 
applicate if the left sidebar is albums. 
For tags, 3 actions (new, reset thumbnail, delete, properties) are specific to 
the currently selected tag in one of the tag tree views; 2 are global (New 
(toplevel) tag, from address book), some more act on the entries of the tag 
(export, batch), and the rest is very specific to the tree view.

There are more problems: If you choose from the menu Tag->New, the parent tag 
of the new tag will be the one currently selected in the left sidebar, even if 
a different sidebar is selected on the left.

So I thought about removing all actions from the main menu which are only 
applicable in a certain state of the left sidebar. But then I am getting 
afraid this would induce UI clutter.

Alternatives:
1) Keep Album/ and Tag/ main menus, but enable them only if the respective 
left sidebar is open. A possible first entry "Browse by" would switch to the 
sidebar
Problem: entries disabled in many situations

2) To the album and tag left sidebar, add at the top a toolbar with three 
entries "Create", "Edit" and "Actions" (or three separate buttons)
Problem: UI clutter

3) In the tree view, for the selected album/tag, draw a symbol, 
something like "v " or even text, and a click on this opens the context menu.
Problem: still hidden functionality

> 
> Most of lead pop-up menu entries are missing into main menu from album
> gui. user must play with digikam before to see pop-up menu. main menu
> is always visible, so main actions must be there.
> 
> Under macos-x, i see that pop-up menu available from right mouse
> button is disable by default. I need to go to Mac Config Panel/Mouse
> Settings to enable it. Can you image the first impression from a new
> user under mac.

Afaik standard Mac mice dont event have a right mouse button?
And even with the hardware, many unexperienced users will simply never use the 
context menu.

> 
> Note : under mac, GoSC2010 code compile fine under XCode...

great. I was expecting more problems from boost graph ;-)

Marcel