Thumbnails display

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I apologize if things work differently in 5.0 version (I'll have to upgrade to Fedora 24 before switching to Digikam 5), I'm running 4.14.0 for the moment.

As after any photo trip, I'm currently reviewing/sorting several thousand pictures (more than 5600 from 3 different cameras) and am a bit hindered by some GUI behaviour:

1) unless I'm mistaken, the filtered display is not refreshed in real time. Thus, when I close the lighttable window after using Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3 keys to reject/accept pictures, the selection is not updated. I need 4 clicks to update it: open filters tab, click on any flag icon, 'unclick' the same icon to restore the previous filter, then close the filters tab. And more often than not, I've lost the position of the current picture, so I've to browse the whole collection to go back where I was currently working.

Any other more efficient way to do the job?

2) when I'm doing this kind of work, I would appreciate to look as many thumbnails as possible, but they shouldn't be too little so I can quickly compare/select them; I currently display 7 of them by row on a 23" screen. But the thumbnails information (name, dates, tags, etc) requires almost as much room as the thumbnails themselves, and even in full screen mode, I get only 3 rows at a time. 
Would it be possible to have, some time in the future, a simple switch that allows to hide/display all this information to either display thumbnails only or thumbnails plus information?

Thanks for your answers,

Marie-Noëlle

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[tosca]

2016-07-28 13:18 GMT+02:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

1) unless I'm mistaken, the filtered display is not refreshed in real time. Thus, when I close the lighttable window after using Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3 keys to reject/accept pictures, the selection is not updated. I need 4 clicks to update it: open filters tab, click on any flag icon, 'unclick' the same icon to restore the previous filter, then close the filters tab. And more often than not, I've lost the position of the current picture, so I've to browse the whole collection to go back where I was currently working.

Any other more efficient way to do the job?

Got it: the F5 key seems to do the trick.

 

2) ... and even in full screen mode, I get only 3 rows at a time. 

My mistake: full screen seems unusable in this case as I cannot drag&drop a thumbnail to the lighttable; it goes to the main screen.

Marie-Noëlle

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2016-07-28 13:26 GMT+02:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

2016-07-28 13:18 GMT+02:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

1) unless I'm mistaken, the filtered display is not refreshed in real time. Thus, when I close the lighttable window after using Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3 keys to reject/accept pictures, the selection is not updated. I need 4 clicks to update it: open filters tab, click on any flag icon, 'unclick' the same icon to restore the previous filter, then close the filters tab. And more often than not, I've lost the position of the current picture, so I've to browse the whole collection to go back where I was currently working.

Any other more efficient way to do the job?

Got it: the F5 key seems to do the trick.

 

2) ... and even in full screen mode, I get only 3 rows at a time. 

Well digiKam support now the HDPI screens, as WQHD or  4K. The minimum size of thumb is limited to 80 px and can be resized to 512 now. There is an option to Setup dialog for that.

This is the best way to do for you. Use screen with higher resolution. Here 2 WQHD screens are used to work, and i's just perfect.

http://microconcept.com/peripheriques/ecran-lcd-et-led-1/iiyama-27-led-prolite-xb2779qs-b1-noir-2560-x-1440-pixels-5-ms-format-large-16-9-dalle-ips-pivot-displayport-hdmi-noir.html

No need 4K for the moment (this is expensive, require more Video memory, and a powerful CPU).

Gilles Caulier

  

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2016-07-28 14:27 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

Well digiKam support now the HDPI screens, as WQHD or  4K. The minimum size of thumb is limited to 80 px and can be resized to 512 now. There is an option to Setup dialog for that.

This is the best way to do for you. Use screen with higher resolution. Here 2 WQHD screens are used to work, and i's just perfect.

http://microconcept.com/peripheriques/ecran-lcd-et-led-1/iiyama-27-led-prolite-xb2779qs-b1-noir-2560-x-1440-pixels-5-ms-format-large-16-9-dalle-ips-pivot-displayport-hdmi-noir.html

No need 4K for the moment (this is expensive, require more Video memory, and a powerful CPU).

Gilles Caulier

 

Unfortunately, I'll have to keep my current screen for some time. :-(

Marie-Noëlle

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