[Digikam-devel] extragear/graphics/digikam/utilities/cameragui

[Gilles Caulier]

SVN commit 522845 by cgilles:

Digikam from trunk : camera gui improvement :

- dialog use KDialogBase now. The code is very polished and more simple to understand.
- settings are just moved to a new sidebar to the left. This way resolve some problems when camera gui is used with low screen resolution. Advanced settings are always available to the screen.
- All others features of cameragui are the same. It's just a gui improvement.
- dialog layout very optimized (spacing, marging, widget sizes).

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 M  +113 -196  cameraui.cpp  
 M  +2 -5      cameraui.h  
 M  +26 -32    renamecustomizer.cpp  


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[Sebastian Roeder]

Hi Gilles,

I have tested the improved cameragui and I like it very much.

In my opinion however the "advanced settings" sidebar would be better on the
right side (first tab, above "Properties"). My reasons:

* This saves some space in the UI
* the Advanced Settings area doesn't look so lost on the right, grouped with
the other sidebar tabs. It better sticks the users eye.
* I can not imagine a situation where a user might want to have two sidebars
open (advanced setting & properties / metainfo).
* It doesn't hurt to have them all three on the right cause properties isn't
pure "info" either - there are also the control buttons (previous, next, ...)
in this tab.
* Having it as first one on the right gives a nice workflow:

1. Adjust the advanced settings if needed (e.g. rename images)
2. Navigate through the images with the buttons in properties (to be honest I
do not know exactly what this tab might be for. Most people will use
keyboard/mouse to browse the images and the infos given there a not very
useful).
3. Decide which files to download based on the metainfo
Conclusion: The whole process can be controled by working with the inferfaces
on the right, working from the top to the bottom (finalizing the download
with the buttons in the lower right corner)

IMPORTANT:

The metainfo tabs are empty on when a photo is selected in the "oberview".
Only when you open the image in the image editor then you get the
exif/makernote infos. It exif/makernote not yet implemented in the cameragui
or is this a bug?

Little UI improvement recommendation: the animated circle in the lower right
corner that show whether the UI is "bussy" is to small for the area with the
digikam banner - there are gray stripes on the top/bottom of the animated
graphic.

OK, that's the end of my little review.  
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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le Lundi 27 Mars 2006 11:14 PM, Sebastian Röder a écrit :

> Hi Gilles,
>
> I have tested the improved cameragui and I like it very much.
>
> In my opinion however the "advanced settings" sidebar would be better on
> the right side (first tab, above "Properties"). My reasons:
>
> * This saves some space in the UI
> * the Advanced Settings area doesn't look so lost on the right, grouped
> with the other sidebar tabs. It better sticks the users eye.
> * I can not imagine a situation where a user might want to have two
> sidebars open (advanced setting & properties / metainfo).
> * It doesn't hurt to have them all three on the right cause properties
> isn't pure "info" either - there are also the control buttons (previous,
> next, ...) in this tab.
> * Having it as first one on the right gives a nice workflow:
>
> 1. Adjust the advanced settings if needed (e.g. rename images)
> 2. Navigate through the images with the buttons in properties (to be honest
> I do not know exactly what this tab might be for. Most people will use
> keyboard/mouse to browse the images and the infos given there a not very
> useful).
> 3. Decide which files to download based on the metainfo
> Conclusion: The whole process can be controled by working with the
> inferfaces on the right, working from the top to the bottom (finalizing the
> download with the buttons in the lower right corner)
>
> IMPORTANT:
>
> The metainfo tabs are empty on when a photo is selected in the "oberview".
> Only when you open the image in the image editor then you get the
> exif/makernote infos. It exif/makernote not yet implemented in the
> cameragui or is this a bug?
>
> Little UI improvement recommendation: the animated circle in the lower
> right corner that show whether the UI is "bussy" is to small for the area
> with the digikam banner - there are gray stripes on the top/bottom of the
> animated graphic.
>
> OK, that's the end of my little review.

thanks Sebastian. I will take a look all your remarks tomorrow morning
(:=)))...

Gilles
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[Gilles Caulier-2]

On Monday 27 March 2006 11:14 pm, Sebastian Röder wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
>
> I have tested the improved cameragui and I like it very much.
>
> In my opinion however the "advanced settings" sidebar would be better on
> the right side (first tab, above "Properties"). My reasons:
>
> * This saves some space in the UI

Yes, after reflection and avanced test, i'm agree with you...

> * the Advanced Settings area doesn't look so lost on the right, grouped
> with the other sidebar tabs. It better sticks the users eye.

right.

> * I can not imagine a situation where a user might want to have two
> sidebars open (advanced setting & properties / metainfo).

Yes

> * It doesn't hurt to have them all three on the right cause properties
> isn't pure "info" either - there are also the control buttons (previous,
> next, ...) in this tab.
> * Having it as first one on the right gives a nice workflow:
>
> 1. Adjust the advanced settings if needed (e.g. rename images)
> 2. Navigate through the images with the buttons in properties (to be honest
> I do not know exactly what this tab might be for. Most people will use
> keyboard/mouse to browse the images and the infos given there a not very
> useful).
> 3. Decide which files to download based on the metainfo
> Conclusion: The whole process can be controled by working with the
> inferfaces on the right, working from the top to the bottom (finalizing the
> download with the buttons in the lower right corner)

ok. I will move left sidebar to the right.

>
> IMPORTANT:
>
> The metainfo tabs are empty on when a photo is selected in the "oberview".

I don't understand what you mean (:=))). Witch view exactly ?

> Only when you open the image in the image editor then you get the
> exif/makernote infos. It exif/makernote not yet implemented in the
> cameragui or is this a bug?

Cameragui, editor and main interface use the same implementation. The only
difference with cameragui is with gphoto cameras, where all Exif metadata are
extracted using a gphoto command. With any camera, the Exif info are empty. I
suspect a bug in gphoto. I have the same problem with my old Olympus C3000Z
camera. When you open a image into IE from camera interface, the file is
donwloaded from camera to computer. The Exif info can be displayed properlly.
If your camera is a Gphoto like, You can check the size of Exif info
extracted by Gphoto to look on the console. There is a debug message like
this :

Size of Exif metadata from camera = 8214

if size are small, like any bytes, gphoto failed to get Exif info from camera.

Note : this problem do not exist with USM mass storage camera !

>
> Little UI improvement recommendation: the animated circle in the lower
> right corner that show whether the UI is "bussy" is to small for the area
> with the digikam banner - there are gray stripes on the top/bottom of the
> animated graphic.

Hum, i can't see what you mean. Give me a little screenshot please...

>
> OK, that's the end of my little review.

Thanks for your constructive remarks.

Gilles
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