Feature Request and some issues

[tonster]

I am running digikam Version 7.2.0-beta2 Build date: Oct 30 2020 under mac 10.15.6

The issues I am seeing is when I go to full screen, the background of the preview turns black. Is this normal, bug or can I change that somehow?




Fullscreen

Feature request:

1. It would be good if digikam remembered where I had left off when I quit the app. For example Album X at thumbnail xxxx, so when I reopen digikam it would open with that thumbnail selected.
Or when in Preview at certain thumbnail that it would open again in Preview mode with that same thumbnail selected.

2. Under Preview, it would be very useful to be able to open the thumbnailbar wider and have more rows of thumbnails rather than having only one row with larger thumbnails.

3. It would be visually nicer and more helpful if it were possible to completely take off the black borders/frames around every thumbnail

4. Also, visually helpful, if it were possible to get rid of the border for each thumbnail placeholder (not sure what it is called, please see the picture)



Thanks
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[tonster]

I guess not



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[tonster]

I guess not



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[Thomas D]

> 1. It would be good if digikam remembered where I had left off when I quit the app. For example Album X at thumbnail xxxx, so when I reopen digikam it would open with that thumbnail selected.
> Or when in Preview at certain thumbnail that it would open again in Preview mode with that same thumbnail selected.

I was just going to write about how I thought this was actually how DK behaves. However, I just checked and you are right. In the latest version DK does not seem to do a good job of remembering where I left off.

I think this is a regression. Because I have a clear memory of DK being able to remember where I left off. And maybe it does so *sometimes*. But I just checked by opening DK. Navigating to some random album and selecting a random thumbnails.

Then I closed DK.

Then I opened DK again.

DK then started up and searched for new items. But did not open the album I was at before I closed.

I then quickly repeated the test again. And now it *did* open the last used album. So something might be wrong here.

Version tested on: 7.1.0

> 3. It would be visually nicer and more helpful if it were possible to completely take off the black borders/frames around every thumbnail
> 4. Also, visually helpful, if it were possible to get rid of the border for each thumbnail placeholder (not sure what it is called, please see the picture)

I second both these points.

I find that there is a lot of screen real estate wasted by borders and padding in the thumbnail view. I have previously suggested being able to scale down thumbnails to 48x48 or maybe even lower. I would absolutely love to be able to also remove additional clutter in order to cram more thumbnails in the same screen view.

I do not want this on all the time. But for some tasks/workflows it is an absolute performance boost to be able to increase the number of thumbnails in a screen view. 

Maybe it would make sense to have a "Compact View" that could be easily toggled with a shortcut key combo and a UI button?

 

Den ons. 25. nov. 2020 kl. 20.31 skrev tonster <[hidden email]>:

I guess not



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[bingling00]

> 4. Also, visually helpful, if it were possible to get rid of the border for
each thumbnail placeholder (not sure what it is called, please see the
picture)

I like the proposal



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