[KPhotoAlbum] Thumbnail latency

[Joe]

  On 09/05/2010 03:43 PM, Miika Turkia wrote:
> Tooltip delay is now in the trunk, revision 1171944.
>
> The drag-drop issue works the way you wish at least in version 4.1.1.
>
> theBro
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at kde.org 
> <mailto:blackie at kde.org>> wrote:
>
>     OK, you make a good point.
>     Would you be able to make a patch for this?
>
>     Cheers
>
>     On Sunday 05 September 2010 11:21:03 Joe wrote:
>     |   On 08/25/2010 02:29 PM, Tero Tilus wrote:
>     | > Joe, 2010-08-25 20:04:
>     | >> On 08/21/2010 03:29 AM, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
>     | >>> Are you referring to the box you see when you uses
>     Settings->show
>     | >>> tooltips in thumbnail window?
>     | >>
>     | >> Yes.
>     | >>
>     | >> I need to scan through a lot of photos picking a selection for an
>     | >> album (by tagging them).  Hovering to get a larger image helps me
>     | >> make selections if it doesn't work too fast.  I can keep the
>     | >> originals small and see many more per screen.
>     | >
>     | > That's exactly what I use that hover feature for.  You can
>     easily turn
>     | > it off for a while when you don't necessarily need it.  C-t iirc.
>     |
>     | Cntrl-T is helpful, but doesn't solve the problem.
>     |
>     | The problem is that I need to turn it on and leave it on for
>     relatively
>     | long sessions when I am selecting/searching through pictures,
>     but when
>     | it is turned on, it is almost completely unusable because I get a
>     | preview for every image I move the mouse over while I'm trying
>     to get
>     | from one image I'm looking at to the next one of interest. This is
>     | *extremely* disorienting and distracting! It even makes it hard
>     to find
>     | the next image of interest because it may be covered up by a
>     preview of
>     | an image that just happened to be "in the way". (and it took
>     quite some
>     | effort to describe it politely like that!)
>     |
>     | dolphin (the file browser - and konqueror too) has this same
>     feature,
>     | but only displays previews for objects that the mouse has
>     "lingered" on
>     | for some time (I'm guessing - around 200ms or so). That way, if
>     you move
>     | the mouse normally, you see a preview for the object you started
>     on and,
>     | next, a preview for the object you stopped on without everything in
>     | between that you are essentially just trying to get past.
>     |
>     | The point is that adding a (hopefully) tiny modification to the
>     preview
>     | code that says something like "ignore a mouseover event if lasts
>     less
>     | than 200ms" should completely fix this issue and make kpa behave
>     the way
>     | other successful applications do.
>     |
>     | It's *little* things like this that make or break a gui!
>     |
>     | Another one that's similar, but far less severe (and probably
>     more of a
>     | user preference issue), is the way that drag and drop works. In kpa,
>     | dragging and dropping a set of selected images causes all the
>     images to
>     | move across the screen. This is very dramatic (and cool the
>     first time
>     | you see it), but I find it ultimately very distracting. The way
>     dolphin
>     | handles this is to modify the mouse cursor so you know a drag
>     and drop
>     | is in progress. It doesn't look like what you're doing is
>     ripping your
>     | data/display apart - and it doesn't rivet your attention on the
>     object
>     | you're manipulating when it should be focused on the destination
>     you're
>     | trying to get to.
>     |
>     | Joe
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Wow!  Thanks for the instant response.  Now, I'll just have to wait for 
it to get into a kubuntu release.

I tried adding the ppa to my sources list, but ran into dependency 
issues that blocked my install.

I'll be upgrading from karmic to lucid sometime soon.  I don't know if 
that's new enough to make a difference.  We'll see.

Joe