burger menu missing

[irthomasthomas at gmail.com]

You just highlighted why I love and hate datktable. It has some great
tools, but everytime I use it, I spend too much time just trying to
remember how to save a file. Instead of just clicking File≥Save, because
usability is boring, I guess?

UI design has gone backwards. And the kids today have no respect for the
hard earned lessons of their elders. Throwing out everything we learned
about UI and accessibility.

It reminds me of that British T.V. show, Nathan Barley, from 20 years ago:

"Once, the idiots were just the fools gawping in through the windows. Now
they've entered the building."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZptMIcdCcpI

On the plus side, it does present an opportunity to disrupt the disrupters,
by simply restoring the main menu to these projects. Oh but can we spare
the 10pixel screen real estate, though? I honestly don't grok the logic of
removing  the main menu.

I hope digikam can push back against the kburgermenu.

Cheers.

On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, 16:12 Gilles Caulier, <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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