[Digikam-users] Suggestion for a Showfoto

[Scott Chevalley]

Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
>> Hi! I have made mockups (2) of the Showfoto. This PDF is my suggestion for
>> faster (=better) workflow when editing multiple photographs.
>> Hopefully this would open some discussion about the Showfoto's GUI and
>> questions about can it be polished even more? I think that digiKam already
>> has great GUI and professional options for photo management, now it's
>> editor needs polishing ;-)
>>
> 
> Taking the main point (as it appears to me):
> Moving from separate dialogs to integrating the settings in the sidebar and 
> the preview in the main area.
> 
> This is an interesting idea, generally in KDE and other software there is a 
> move away from modal dialogs towards non-modal solutions like the one 
> suggested here. It is a valid point; the dialog is modal, so the window in 
> the background cannot be used anyway. It would be interesting to hear the 
> opinion of the people here on this list, as well as the opinion of a 
> usability expert.
> 
> Technically, such a change requires a larger amount of work. The main window 
> need to be adapted, the base classes of the current image plugin dialogs need 
> to be refitted into the new framework, and (at least with trivial changes) 
> each image plugin need to be ported.
> 
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As a mostly-lurker on the list, I just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in
and say that I like the mockup.  I think it follows more closely the
flow that other image/raw editors take, so would be easier for users to
get up to speed.

I also see how being able to switch between images to apply the current
tool to each is much better than the modal dialog method.

The only additional suggestion would be to somehow speed up the preview
of the modification, because some of the tools take a long time to do
what they do and try to do it for even the most miniscule change in
parameters.

Scott