[KimDaBa] timelines - ideas needed

[jedd]

On Thu December 9 2004 07:24 pm, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
 ] I'll try once again.
 ] Can we get ambition up here. DREAM MODE ON!

 Meh! - you don't pay us enough to dream!  ;)

 ] Here is an example:
 ] I'd like a line where I could see samples from each period and how many images 
 ] was in that period. A period could be a day, a week, a year, 12 days, what 
 ] ever (some fancy way of dragging the mouse to zoom in out).

 Okay .. the obvious problem is that graphical data doesn't scale down
 well visually.  I know that's a truism, but that's what makes it an
 inescapable limitation.

 I think that idea you just mentioned could be interesting.  Something
 like the width of the dialog box, 20-30 pixels high, but it'd be really
 CPU expensive to work out the distribution dynamically as you change
 the time frame, wouldn't it?

 I guess if you're looking for an image based on date .. it's because
 you can't work out some unique set of people / location / keywords
 to narrow down your search to a viewable number of thumbnails.

 I really like that idea of /dynamically/ showing the number of matching
 images to the time-scale that you're selecting.

 Extend that .. and as you select start/end times you also get shown
 the number of unique keywords, people, locations, (and specials)
 that exist in that time-frame.  If it's a manageable number, then some
 place to show them in the dialog.

 About a third of my photos live in sub-directories that are of the form
 'yyyy-mm-dd description of event' -- and sometimes it's easier to do
 a konq browse into the appropriate directory than go thru KimDaBa.
 Not sure if other people do this -- but if they do, then the option to
 also see the last leaf of the directory structure for each of the dis
 that match the time-frame?

 I don't approve of shortcut-bloat .. but maybe some way of searching
 based on the time-frame nominated by selecting two images (from
 thumbnail or full screen view).    Not sure how useful this would be
 given you're likely looking at the image you want, by the time you're
 in a position to select a 'start and end image' .. ?

 Jedd.