[KimDaBa] timelines - ideas needed

[Sam]

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Le 09.12.2004 13:28, Jesper K. Pedersen :
> Interesting.
> Now how would I select from Jan 15 to Mar 12 with your user interface?

You can't do that. But you can select from the end of october to the 
medium of december like this :

http://wienin.free.fr/tmp/kimdaba2.jpg

The point is to create an _interactive_ explorer to have a chronological 
point of view like in a real album.

> Cheers
> Jesper.
> On Thursday 09 December 2004 13:21, Sam wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | <deam>
> |
> | I'd like to explore my pictures like in a true "classical" album and I
> | imagine a graphical interface like in this picture :
> | http://wienin.free.fr/tmp/kimdaba.jpg
> |
> | 1- all the pictures are arranged by date
> | 2- there is 3 lines for year, month and day (maybe one more line for the
> | albums concerned by the period
> | 3 - the length of the box is proportional at the number of images in the
> | periode
> | 4 - you can select one or more years, months or days
> | 5 - the selection is interactive
> |
> | </deam>
> |
> | Le 09.12.2004 09:24, Jesper K. Pedersen :
> | > I'll try once again.
> | > Can we get ambition up here. DREAM MODE ON!
> | >
> | > 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).
> | >
> | > Just hit me with the best you could dream of, and I'll scale it down
> | > afterwards to something doable in KimDaBa with my work load etc.
> | > In other words, it is your jobs to dream now, and my job to convert those
> | > dreams into something that is doable.
> | >
> | > Cheers
> | > Jesper.
> | >
> | > On Thursday 09 December 2004 09:02, David Fraser wrote:
> | > | Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> | > | >Hi.
> | > | >Yesterday I added a patch to KimDaBa which shows which dates there are
> | > | > images for in the image date search dialog.
> | > | >
> | > | >This made me think about the issue of searching for images from a
> | > | > given date (or period) As someone so honestly pointed out here
> | > | > earlier, that really sucks in KimDaBa.
> | > | >
> | > | >Even with the above patch it isn't really very powerfull.
> | > | >
> | > | >I expect to take tomorrow of from work, and give it a shot, so here is
> | > | > an assignment for you today.
> | > | >
> | > | >Tell me what you want from such a "search for images based on dates"
> | > | > dialog. Fell free to send me screenshoots from "competing" products.
> | > | >
> | > | >Cheers
> | > | >Jesper.
> | > |
> | > | I'd find a calendar that visualises how many photographs there are per
> | > | day helpful.
> | > | Say the background color for each day in the month / month name was
> | > | shaded according to the number of photos on that day.
> | > | This is because I'll often have a whole batch of photos clustered
> | > | around an event (wedding / party) or trip, and that's usually what I'm
> | > | trying to select...
> | > |
> | > | I also think it would be helpful to select the start and end date from
> | > | the same calendar rather than two (click and drag to select)
> | > |
> | > | David
>