[digiKam-users] Wastebin - how to empty?

[Gilles Caulier]

Le lun. 30 janv. 2023 à 10:29, Thomas <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :

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> On 2023-01-30 07:44, Gilles Caulier wrote:
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> Le mar. 17 janv. 2023 à 14:07, Thomas <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> Hi Gilles,
>>
>> I just read through that, and while I value the excellent documentation
>> for Digikam, I think that from a user experience perspective the user
>> should not really have to consult the documentation for such a mundane task
>> ask to empty trash. Especially since there is already an establish defacto
>> pattern for hos much of this stuff works in other applications.
>>
>> From the documentation:
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>>    -
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>>    *Undo*: to restore only the last entry in the trash-bin.
>>    -
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>>    *Restore¨*: to restore selection of files from the trash-bin.
>>    -
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>>    *Delete*: to remove *permanently* the items selection or all items
>>    from the trash-bin.
>>
>> I propose a low effort improvement:
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>> The buttons should at least have these specifications listed in the
>> "mouse hover hint". I don't know what the right term for this is, but what
>> I mean is that if the user hovers the buttons with the mouse, there should
>> be a quick help text shown.
>> An example of where this is used elsewhere in the application is here:
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> It's a "tooltip"
>
>> Such hints greatly improves the user experience and discoverability of
>> the application.
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>> Implemented in 7.x and 8.x
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> Hmm... I don't see this on my 7.9 DK on Windows. When I hover the three
> buttons in Trash no tooltip is shown. I have tried hovering for 10 seconds.
> When I hover the buttons in the upper toolbar, like the "Full screen"
> button, the tooltip is shown after 2 seconds.
>
> So if this has been implemented in 7.9 it seems it is not working
> correctly - not on my machine at least. Is anyone else seeing the same
> behavior?
>
>
> Only next 7.10.0 will be patched (:=)))...


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> This is a quick fix. I still hope you will consider my original proposal
>> for improvement.
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>>
>> Please report a new file in bugzilla. It's a junior job for students.
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>
> I will try and report this. However, I do not have good experience with
> reporting bugs for DK on bugs.kde.org. Especially not if it is whishlist
> bugs.
>

It's a whish


> It seems even fairly trivial changes that would provide a significant
> improvement of the user experience is not prioritized.
>
> I know there is a voting system, however, for stuff that affects many
> technical users they will never see the wish/bug report because such non
> technical users will never bother creating a profile on bugs.kde.org.
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>
> Don't care report, and i will assign to a student. They will arrive soon
in February

Gilles
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