[Digikam-users] inefficient use of screen space

[Per Bothner]

DigiKam uses screen real estate very inefficiently.
The left side-bar, whether it is album view, date/time
view, or tags view all use large icons which means there
is excess whitespace between each line.  Each of these
should use a standard tree-view like Konqueror, and either
leave out the icon (seldom useful), or use a much smaller
icon.

The same issue applies to the tag editing or filter modes
in the right side-bar.

The far left column used to switch between album, data/time,
tags, and searches could be done more space efficiently by
using a "tab" bar on top.  This is also a more common
interface so it might be more user-friendly.  Or the Firefox
Sidebar-selection UI could be used.

I also agree with BugZilla #102500
(http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102500) that album
view has too much whitespace and in general is not space
efficient.
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