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

[Andi Clemens]

I still think that the QUIT action is totally misplaced in the "Album" menu... 
This is what confuses me every time I take a look at the menues (I don't use 
the Album and Tag menu, I always use the context menu, so Marcel's suggestion 
about removing them is a good one, at least for my day-to-day digiKam usage).

Andi Clemens
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On Wednesday 17 November 2010 15:46:29 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > 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
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