[KPhotoAlbum] Help with graphics design

[Martin Höller]

Hi Jesper! Hi all!

On 22 May 2009, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> KPhotoAlbum looks dull, I'll be the first to admit that.
> On the other hand, I guess we all here can agree that it is really powerful 
> for browsing your images. 

I just switched to KDE4 few days ago and had a first look at the new
KPA4. I really like it and find the idea of stacking a _major_
improvement! Congratulations!

> To win much more users, we need to win them within their first few moments of 
> KPhotoAlbum usage. That is where coolness comes in. 
> 
> If you have graphics skills, then I would need your help to spiff up KPA. You 
> don't need to be able to code them, I'm more looking for ideas on how to make 
> the browser more sexy, which might be something as simple as show the home 
> screen with the icons in 42x42 from left to right instead of the dull list 
> view.
> 
> If you are out there, and have a bit of time to kick me in the right 
> direction, then let me know. Either by answering in private or on this list.

I'm really not a person with graphic skills, but looking at some other
apps gives good ideas.

- I like gwenview which's image browser looks really good: fancy frames
  around thumbs with highlighting on mouse hovering.

- The startpage of gwenview looks much more tidier than KPA's and the
  default background color looks better than KPA's black or white
  (shouldn't the actual color come from KDE's theme?).

- Digikam and Google's picasa may also provide some good input. But I
  don't have them installed right now, so I can't check.

hth,
- martin