[Digikam-users] Suggestion for a Showfoto

[Gerhard Kulzer]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 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.

I think this is the way to go after KDE4  release. I've been expressing my wish for non-modal editing on this ML already, I was just quiet because of the amount of work involved. Right now is not a good time to start such a project. But you Gilles and Marcel know much better what is involved.

Gerhard

> 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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