Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs OS: Linux The goal is to lower issues with persistent selections in the camera import view ( cf http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131036#c7 ). Indeed by adding persistent selection, a user wiling just to see informations about an image, will automatically select the image for download. One way to solve this issue ( i.e allowing user to consult some images properties without slecting the image for import by inadvertance ), is to display a tooltip when hovering the image like in the album. IMHO the exact same tooltip should be use. So like in the album view, when the mouse is on top of an image, the tooltip is display allowing the user at least see main infos about the images ( digital camera used, date, settings for the photo ). For more advanced properties, the user will just need to select the image and use the tabs.
just a reminder before 0.9.2 release
Marcel, I'm agree with Fabrice. This will give an homogenous interface behaviours between Album GUI, Camera GUI, Showfoto, and Light Table... Perhaps with KDE4 we can introduce this feature. Your viewpoint ? Gilles
overlay semi-transparent tooltips could be used for this. A fadding effect could be used when the tooltip is displayed ( or this could be handled by the compositing effect mecanism of the WM ). See for example : http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-08-19/files/tooltip.png http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-08-19/files/overlay.png
Semi-transparency looks cool but reduces readability. Bring regular tooltips to all GUIs of Digikam (Album, Camera, Lighttable) and better whole thumbnail system with additional info displayed below thumbnail itself.
Fabrice, We have already a tooltip for iconview in digiKam. No need to re-invent the wheel. Gilles
*** Bug 177977 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
SVN commit 898483 by cgilles: digiKam from trunk : Camera interface : add camera icon view item tool tip support. For USB Mass Storage camera, File info and Photo info (from Exif) are displayed. For Gphoto2 camera, only File info are displayed, to reduce communication between camera and computer. BUG: 141087 M +1 -0 CMakeLists.txt M +2 -2 libs/imageproperties/imagepropertiessidebarcamgui.cpp M +2 -2 libs/imageproperties/imagepropertiessidebarcamgui.h M +20 -10 project/project.kdevelop M +16 -16 utilities/cameragui/cameraiconitem.cpp M +5 -5 utilities/cameragui/cameraiconitem.h M +51 -23 utilities/cameragui/cameraiconview.cpp M +9 -7 utilities/cameragui/cameraiconview.h AM utilities/cameragui/cameraiconviewtooltip.cpp [License: GPL (v2+)] AM utilities/cameragui/cameraiconviewtooltip.h [License: GPL (v2+)] M +21 -21 utilities/cameragui/cameraui.cpp M +3 -3 utilities/cameragui/cameraui.h M +3 -1 utilities/cameragui/gpiteminfo.cpp M +18 -12 utilities/cameragui/gpiteminfo.h M +21 -13 utilities/cameragui/umscamera.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=898483