[Digikam-users] inefficient use of screen space

[Per Bothner]

Arnd Baecker wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Per Bothner wrote:
> 
>> Arnd Baecker wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Per Bothner wrote:
>>>> I still can't change the album thumbnail image size
>>>> (I'd like to make that larger).  Even editing digikamrc
>>>> (the ThumbnailSize setting) doesn't seem to work.
>>> I don't understand - what do you mean by "album thumbnail image size"?
>>> Do you refer to those in the left side-bar?
>>> OTOH, the ThumbnailSize is in the [Camera Settings] part...
>> The setting I needed to change was 'Default Icon Size'
>> for the photo thumbnails shown in the album view.  Changing
>> it to 160 gave me something reasonable.
>>
>> I couldn't find a UI way to change this, and the default of 96
>> is much too small.
> 
> There is a status-line with a slider to change the icon size
> (well, this one also disappears with the full-screen problem,
> but re-appears after CTRL-SHIFT-F twice).

That UI isn't terribly obvious (though the tooltip helps).
Worse, it's hard to precisely set the size.  A common
alternative is a widget to show the actual number along with
up and down control, like what KColorChooser uses.  I think
that might be better.

Still, the existing UI is tolerable enough, especially now
that I know how to edit the digikamrc.
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