[KimDaBa] New snapshot with improved thumbnail viewer

[Robert L Krawitz]

   From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk>
   Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:15:08 -0500

   Its all about a matter of priorities. Things takes time.  If I
   change the background color, then I also need to change the color
   of the lines, and the color of the shadow lines.

Quite honestly I don't care about the lines, and I certainly don't
care for the shadow effect at all.  In any event, there are
KDE-supplied colors that you can use for this purpose (window frame
colors, for example).  Take a look at the Colors pane of the KDE
control center.  FWIW, note that the "Widget Color" box has a line and
a shadow line around it; those colors are resources, not hard coded.

I'm not asking you to put special configurability into kimdaba for
this; I'm asking you to honor the system colors.

I personally find a stark white background to be very tiring.  I avoid
it where at all possible.  For viewing photographs in particular, a
dark background works much better.

   Tell me why you need the labels at all, please.

I guess the most important reason is that if I want to e. g. copy an
image into another program or another directory I need to know its
name to find the file.  Popping a viewer takes time, particularly for
a large image, and it hides all of the other thumbnails.  It's a lot
faster for me to look at thumbnails and say "I want img_8242.jpg,
img_8247.jpg, and img_8250.jpg".

   On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:50, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   |    From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk>
   |    Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:22:00 -0500
   |    Cc: kimdaba at kdab.net
   |
   |    On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:38, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   |    |    From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk>
   |    |    Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:47:28 -0500
   |    |
   |    |    Over the Christmas holidays I've reimplemented the thumbnail
   |    | viewer. Read all about it on http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba/news.htm
   |    |
   |    |    A new snapshot is available with it, and I urge everyone to start
   |    |    using the snapshots. Due to an unfortunate amount of bugs
   |    |    introduced either by KDE, Qt or esp Suse, I'm planning to freeze
   |    |    soon and make a release.
   |    |
   |    | 1) The new thumbnail viewer overrides my color choice -- the
   |    |    background is always white (my normal background is black).
   |
   |    There is no color choice anymore (*evil grin*)
   |    Color choice is IMHO an example of over configurability which just makes
   |    things harder to maintain.
   |    So if you want that back in, you gotta work real hard on it ;-)
   |
   | But KDE already provides color choice for backgrounds; I'm simply
   | asking that you honor it.
   |
   |    | 2) The new thumbnail viewer doesn't display the image name (unless
   |    |    it's actually being displayed in my normal text color, which of
   |    |    course is white).
   |
   |    That is true too. I considered the text for a long time, and came to the
   |    conclusion that I wouldn't do it.
   |
   | Why?

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