Slideshow actions in digiKam and KIPI

Hi,

while looking through the actions in the shortcut editor of digiKam, I
recognized that the slideshow actions might be a little bit confusing.

For example the KIPI slideshow is listed under "Slideshow" in digiKam,
although it should actually be called "Advanced Slideshow", since "Slideshow"
is the built-in mechanism in digiKam.

On the other side the slideshow actions are simply listed in General, which
makes it hard to associate the actions name with the slideshow feature.
For example "All" or "Selection" is not very meaningful in this case, it could
be anything.
See my attached screenshot.

I would suggest to rename the plugin to "Advanced Slideshow" and give the
built-in slideshow actions a dedicated actionCollection,
What do you think?

There is one more thing that is making the shortcut editor not very readable:
Every single KIPI-Plugin has it's own actionCollection, but normally there is
only one action registered.
For my personal taste I would like to have just one actionCollection "KIPI-
Plugins" that will host all the other actions.
This way you simply can collapse the KIPI-plugins category in the editor and
see the digiKam actions. Right now you have to scroll down until you find
"General" somewhere.
Any suggestions on that?

Andi


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I have patched digiKam to load all KIPI-Plugins into one collection. Only
MetadataEdit will have its own collection, since it has many actions. See
attached  screenshot.

What do you think?
If you don't like it I would still suggest to rename the Advanced Slideshow
plugin and create a dedicated actionCollection for the built-in slideshow.

Andi

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 14:06:49 Andi Clemens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> while looking through the actions in the shortcut editor of digiKam, I
> recognized that the slideshow actions might be a little bit confusing.
>
> For example the KIPI slideshow is listed under "Slideshow" in digiKam,
> although it should actually be called "Advanced Slideshow", since
> "Slideshow" is the built-in mechanism in digiKam.
>
> On the other side the slideshow actions are simply listed in General, which
> makes it hard to associate the actions name with the slideshow feature.
> For example "All" or "Selection" is not very meaningful in this case, it
> could be anything.
> See my attached screenshot.
>
> I would suggest to rename the plugin to "Advanced Slideshow" and give the
> built-in slideshow actions a dedicated actionCollection,
> What do you think?
>
> There is one more thing that is making the shortcut editor not very
> readable: Every single KIPI-Plugin has it's own actionCollection, but
> normally there is only one action registered.
> For my personal taste I would like to have just one actionCollection "KIPI-
> Plugins" that will host all the other actions.
> This way you simply can collapse the KIPI-plugins category in the editor
> and see the digiKam actions. Right now you have to scroll down until you
> find "General" somewhere.
> Any suggestions on that?
>
> Andi

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2009/2/4 Andi Clemens <[hidden email]>

I have patched digiKam to load all KIPI-Plugins into one collection. Only
MetadataEdit will have its own collection, since it has many actions. See
attached  screenshot.

What do you think?
If you don't like it I would still suggest to rename the Advanced Slideshow
plugin and create a dedicated actionCollection for the built-in slideshow.

For me its fine to rename...

Gilles

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I have restructured it again, every actionCollection with more than 3 actions
will have its own category, look at the screenshot.
I think this is much better.

Andi

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:01:50 Gilles Caulier wrote:

> 2009/2/4 Andi Clemens <[hidden email]>
>
> > I have patched digiKam to load all KIPI-Plugins into one collection. Only
> > MetadataEdit will have its own collection, since it has many actions. See
> > attached  screenshot.
> >
> > What do you think?
> > If you don't like it I would still suggest to rename the Advanced
> > Slideshow plugin and create a dedicated actionCollection for the built-in
> > slideshow.
>
> For me its fine to rename...
>
> Gilles

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On Wednesday 04 February 2009 14:06:49 Andi Clemens wrote:
> I would suggest to rename the plugin to "Advanced Slideshow" and give the
> built-in slideshow actions a dedicated actionCollection,
> What do you think?

I am all for this. I think we have already once discussed that KIPI slideshow should be named Advanced.

> There is one more thing that is making the shortcut editor not very
> readable: Every single KIPI-Plugin has it's own actionCollection, but
> normally there is only one action registered.
> For my personal taste I would like to have just one actionCollection "KIPI-
> Plugins" that will host all the other actions.
> This way you simply can collapse the KIPI-plugins category in the editor
> and see the digiKam actions. Right now you have to scroll down until you
> find "General" somewhere.

Is it at all possible to share ActionCollection between different plugins?
Otherwise this makes sense, as normally plugins do not have more than one shortcut, so grouping them makes sense.

Regards,
Luka

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