[Digikam-devel] [Bug 192424] "Autohide" toolbar in full-screen view

[DGardner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192424





--- Comment #3 from DGardner <dkde gardnersworld org>  2011-12-14 12:02:47 ---
This is still valid in digiKam 2.3.0 (the latest version to which I have
access). In full-screen mode, the tool-bar is always visible and takes up
space. This is a particular problem in these days of wide-screen monitors where
vertical space is precious.

In 2.3.0, to mitigate this problem, I right-clicked the tool-bar when in
full-screen mode and unchecked "Lock Toolbar Positions" and dragged the
tool-bar to the left side. However, I had to remove the "digiKam.org" tool-bar
button because it made the tool-bar too wide (if I wanted text beside the
buttons, I would have turned it on, BTW). Then, I noticed that when positioned
on the left, most of the buttons did not work any more (the first three work,
but rest become unresponsive). I could not exit full-screen mode using the
tool-bar button, for example. I also could not right-click the tool-bar to lock
it unless I right-clicked on the tiny handle (now at the top). When horizontal,
I could right-click anywhere on the tool-bar to access its context menu. If I
set the tool-bar to be floating, then all of the icons disappear. Lastly, the
right-click context menu for a full-screen image only works over the image, not
off to the side, where I would expect it would still work, as there is nothing
else on the screen. (All this on digiKam 2.3.0, KDE 4.7.3, Fedora 16.)

Even if all that were fixed, it would still not be to my liking to just place
the tool-bar on the left, as the tool-bar also then appears on the left in
non-full-screen mode, and I don't want it there, as the side panels in the
album view are already very big.

So, yes, this is still relevant and an auto-hide option would be nice to have.
I'd even be happy with an option to just remove the tool-bar when in
full-screen mode..... Wait a minute.... I just found a setting under "Editor
Window" to hide the tool-bar in full-screen mode. Strange place to hide it for
the Album View window, but it works for that, too. The background colour for
the full-screen mode in the editor does not match what is set ("Use theme
background colour") and is out-of-sync with the background of the thumb-bar in
the editor. I never changed the theme and my background is white everywhere
except in the editor, where, on changing to full-screen mode, it suddenly turns
black.

What doesn't work now is the option to show the thumb-bar. I cannot see that
any more at all in the album view.... Wait another minute...the menu option
just appeared and when I turned it off and then turned it on again, it started
to display the thumb-bar. I didn't notice it because it was greyed out when in
thumbnail view. Still, there are some problems with it.

OK, I played about with it for a bit; try this:

1. In the album view, click an image to preview it.

2. Turn on the thumb-bar if not already on.

3. Ctrl+Shift+F to go to full-screen mode.

4. Click the image to go to the thumbnail view.

5. Ctrl+Shift+F to exit full-screen mode.

6. Now, back in the album thumbnail view, the thumb-bar is shown! The menu
option to disable it is greyed out.

7. Preview an image and then "un-preview" it and the thumb-bar disappears.

Earlier, I saw in single-image preview mode that the thumb-bar menu option was
enabled and checked but the thumb-bar was still not visible in either normal or
full-screen mode until I cycled the option in the menu. I couldn't replicate
that, though. Perhaps this is some initialisation problem, because this was a
new install and I had never touched the menu option before.

To end my ramble, then:

The "Editor Window" setting to hide the tool-bar when in full-screen mode works
for the Album View, too, and that's enough for me. The setting needs to be
moved or appear in two places, though.

There are problems with the display of the thumb-bar, perhaps related to
initial settings for a new install.

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