burger menu missing

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

No, in digiKam code the main menu is never disabled at all. But the main
menu is constructed in the background (as also the burger menu if we want
to use it later) by the KDE KF5 framework, and the rules of KDE developers
is to follow the UI design mode to hide the main menu in all applications.
It's like you use the last version of Microsoft Office where all main menus
disappear in favor of a complex and overloaded tool-bar. In terms of
usability, it's nonsense and it forces you to learn from scratch to drive a
car. It's a main reason that personally I use LibreOffice instead of
Microsoft Office in my office when I can...

In the social networks, and especially in groups talking about photo
applications, I can see people criticizing digiKam about the complex and
older GUI, because it does not follow the UI design mode. I'm sorry but an
application without a main menu is poorly usable (for ex Darktable) even if
it provides powerful features.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 22 janv. 2022 à 15:55, irthomasthomas at gmail.com <
irthomasthomas at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks, I didn't know about CTRL+M. Does that mean the main menu it is
> hidden by default, though?
> I hope you don't move to a burgermenu, I don't like them, they increase
> cognitive load every time I encounter them.
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 14:47, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> digiKam doesn't currently have a burgermenu, we've thought about it.
>> However,
>> it may contain only a fraction of digiKam's main menu. You activate the
>> main
>> menu again with CTRL+M or with the right mouse button context menu over a
>> thumbnail or preview image.
>>
>> Maik
>>
>> Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2022, 15:40:42 CET schrieb
>> irthomasthomas at gmail.com:
>> > Hi, I just installed a new debian 11 with kde. Now digikam 7.3 and 7.4
>> > appimages have no main menu and no burgermenu.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Ta,
>> > Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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