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In reply to this post by Arnd Baecker
Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Arnd Baecker:
> Hi, > > as a follow-up to the new LED introduced by Gilles to > indicate that one of the filters (rating, > quick text filter, or file) is active. > > While this is nice, I have the impression that this > is not yet visually "intrusive" enough, i.e. it still > could be overlooked. > > A clearer indication might be to change e.g. > a) the color of the background of the filters in the status line > b) the color of the background in the icon view > c) for an active tags-filter (right side-bar), the background > of the TAB (both in folded and expanded view) should be > changed > (e.g. to red in all cases). > > All these are, according to Gilles, very easy > to realize with KDE4... (but not with KDE3). > > What do you think about this? (Worth an entry in the BKO?) > > Best, Arnd > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-devel mailing list > [hidden email] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-devel a reminder that a filter is on. Gerhard -- ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·... ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·...¸ ><((((º> http://www.gerhard.fr _______________________________________________ Digikam-devel mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-devel |
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On Thursday 31 January 2008 Gilles Caulier wrote:
| 2008/1/31, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>: | > 2008/1/31, Arnd Baecker <[hidden email]>: | > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Gilles Caulier wrote: | > > > 2008/1/31, Arnd Baecker <[hidden email]>: | > > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Gilles Caulier wrote: | > > > > > 2008/1/30, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>: | > > > > | > > > > [...] | > > > > | > > > > > > I would propose to change the LED to orange when one changes | > > > > > > the | > > | > > view, | > > | > > > > > > just as | > > > > > > a reminder that a filter is on. | > > > > > | > > > > > And use light green when all icon view filters are inactive ? | > > > > | > > > > I would think that no color makes it even clearer that no | > > > > filter is active. I.e. we get a stronger contrast between | > > > > greyed out and orange. | > > > > | > > > > Best, Arnd | > > > | > > > Hum, try commit #769006. Now LED colors are : | > > > | > > > - light green when filter settings are inactive (default values ==> | > > | > > icon | > > | > > > view contents not filtered) | > > > - light orange when something is active in filter settings. | > > > | > > > Nota : Right click over the LED reset filter settings to default | > > | > > (become | > > | > > > inactive) | > > > | > > > Let's me hear if all is better for you. If yes, i will backport code | > > | > > to KDE4 | > > | > > > as well... | > > | > > Hm, visually the green is much stronger than the light-orange to me, | > > so this even more easy to miss. Why not red ;-)? | | Red color is to indicate than something is wrong, dangerous, etc... | | This is not the case here. Is just to ping user than filters are active. | Orange is better for that... But it's just my viewpoint... | | Mik, Gerhard ? Orange | > "If this light is orange, something is active in filter settings. " | > | > > --> "... in the filter settings." | > > or maybe: | > > ""If this light is orange, filtering is active." ? | > | > yes, this is what i mean... | > | > > "If this light is green, nothing is filtered. " | > > | > > > "Clic over with right mouse button to reset all filters." | > > | > > - Clic -> Click | > > - Left mouse does also work (why right mouse??) | | All mouse buttons are tested now... | | | yes, i will do it | | > --> "Click to reset all filters." ? | > | > | > exactly... | > | > | > What about tag-filters ;-) ? | > | > | > Nothing here. LED is about filters from status bar not sidebar. | > | > As we have talk in the pass, to be homogeneous, we must think to move all | > icon view filters in a common sidebar tab named "Filters" instead "Tags | > Filters"... but by this way, icon view filter from status bar will only | > visible if sidebar tab is open... | > | > Using a tool bar here do not solve the problem. The idea is to group all | > filters together : tags, text, mime type, and rating. The only way to | > host all tags filter is a sidebar tab, not a toolbar... | > | > Also, remember than status bar is full now. In the future, if we need to | > add new filter based on date, ratio, size, etc... we will need to find | > another way than status bar or tool-bar to host it. This is why sidebar | > tab is the most fine. | > | > Discussion is open. It's an usability + gui design issue. It's important | > for the future to be clean about this subject. | | After to have played with Tags Filters, I think wee need to be homogeneous | here again. The LED must indicate than icon view if filtered, including | Tags Filters... else this is a non-sense... | | also if click over LED is done, it must reset Tags Filters too... | | Your viewpoints ? Now the LED and text background have different color (green/white when inactive, orange/green or orange/red if no match). One gets used to it, but it is not consistent. Proposal: inactive:green/green match:orange/orange no match:red/red Gerhard | Gilles Caulier -- ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·... ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·...¸ ><((((º> http://www.gerhard.fr _______________________________________________ Digikam-devel mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-devel |
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On Thursday 31 January 2008 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Now the LED and text background have different color (green/white when > inactive, orange/green or orange/red if no match). One gets used to it, but > it is not consistent. > > Proposal: inactive:green/green match:orange/orange no match:red/red > > > I'm not sure to understand exactly your proposal... > > Let's me resume : > > - Search Text widget colorize background of text field in green if query is > match else in red. > > - Led function is different : it's an indicator to ping user if filter is > active or not over icon view... that all. It do not report if filtering > match something in icon view. We don't need that : just look if something > appear in icon view, it's enough... > > Unforget than filtering can perturb user if it's active. If user don't take > a care about filtering status, he can see a dummy empty album where items > are really on the way... > > Gilles but I do not have a strong case for it, I can live well with the solution right now. I tested the tag filter reset with the LED, it works :-))) Gerhard _______________________________________________ Digikam-devel mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-devel |
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On Friday 01 February 2008 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2008/2/1, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>: > > > > > > > > 2008/2/1, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > 2008/2/1, Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>: > > > > > > > > Dnia Friday 01 of February 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał: > > > > > Red color is to indicate than something is wrong, dangerous, etc... > > > > > > > > > > This is not the case here. Is just to ping user than filters are > > > > active. > > > > > Orange is better for that... But it's just my viewpoint... > > > > > > > > > > Mik, Gerhard ? > > > > > > > > Nice idea. Few ideas for improvements. > > > > > > > > 1. Visual: lack of left-, top-margins looks ugly. LED should be > > > > centered > > > > in status bar. > > > > > > > > > Ah, i'm happy to read these word. This is you Mik (:=))) > > > > > > Yes, the widget is not centered... And this is not my fault. The widget > > > come from kdelibs and this is another one badly implemented. The widget > > > drawing method always use the top/left corner as reference. Content is never > > > centered like an usual widget... > > > > > > I have fight against to find an alternative, but without rea > > > > > > > Oups cuttered words here (:=))) > > > > I have fight against to find an alternative, but without success. I'm > > shared to waste time again this layout problem using KLed widget as well or > > tho re-implement it into digiKam core... > > > > > > > > > > 2. Still not sure about colors. For me most logical would be: > > > > - greyed out for inactive filters > > > > - green/orange for active filters > > > > - red when filters caused that there are no images in view > > > > > > > > Sound like the idea to have a visual feedback about filtering match. icon > > view is not enough as well ? > > > > About the colors, your schema sound like text search widget background > > color scheme... > > > > Ok, done in svn with rev. #769396. > > Please test, and report. > > To Native English guys : this sentence is fine to details LED from status > bar : > > QWhatsThis::add(d->led, i18n("This light report icon-view filters > status. " > "This include all status-bar filters and > all Tag-Filters from right sidebar. " > "If this light is red, at least one filter > is active, and no item match the query. " > "If this light is green, at least one > filter is active, and at least one item match the query. " > "If this light is gray, nothing is > filtered. " > "Click over with mouse button to reset all > filters.")); > > Thanks in advance > > Gilles Caulier > "GRAY: no filter is active, all items are visible.\n" "RED: filtering is on, but no items match.\n" "GREEN: filter(s) matches at least one item.\n\n" "Any mouse button click will reset all filters.")); Commit will follow Gerhard -- ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·... ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·...¸ ><((((º> http://www.gerhard.fr _______________________________________________ Digikam-devel mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-devel |
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