Version: 0.9.2-final (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux If a digikam user changes to fullscreen mode using e.g. View/Fullscreen or the task bar button, there's no obvious way to change back! How do you know about Ctrl-Shift-F, if this was not used to change to fullscreen? There's no hint and the user might just end up changing to a console and to kill digikam... There should be an entry in the "Right mousebutton menu" for "toggle fullscreen", but with my OpenSUSE 10.3 version in the RMB menu of the album view there's only a greyed-out Insert and in the single photo view, there's only a "back to album" (But you're still in full screen mode then) and this is also the behaviour pressing the "ESC"ape button. Trying out the "F"unction-keys is maybe a natural behaviour, which won't give the user much success, but Ctrl-Shift-F ??? In digikam AFAIK, there's no menu popping up, if you go with the mouse to the upper or lower border like in gwenview or the KDE control bar, which can be configured to hide automatically. This would also be a place to look for a "toggle fullscreen" entry. This is no real bug, but a real annoyance to a newcomer. (And it shouldn't be too hard to do something against it, since RMB-menus are already there.)
I would make this entry INVALID. Not that this is invalid per se but this is KDE way of doing this and should be solved on completely different level.
Mikolaj, so what do you suggest as alternative solution ? (adding a RMB-menu would be easy and a quick solution ... ;-) Best, Arnd
Arnd, There is an old patch from me to add RMB pop-up menu on native digiKam SlideShow tool... but it still bugos (crash in some case). It need to be hacked a little before to be applied on svn. Because i'm very busy with KDE4 port i have delayed finalization of this patch... File is here : http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/slideshow.patch If you try to apply it against svn, you will certainly seen few problems. It very old (2007/03/18 - digiKam 0.9.1). If you want to play with it, fell free (:=)))... Gilles
Yes, Arnd. For quick solution adding top(?) entry in RMB menu is the best.
Martin, just to be sure: if you don't hide the tool-bar, then there is no problem, because the button to bring you back to non-full-screen mode is still there, right?
No! The toolbar and statusbar are enabled and will be shown first, but after switching to fullscreen mode both disappear. I also tried to move the mouse pointer to the very top or bottom, but no toolbar will show up. And sorry, it was wrong to put the "add RMB menu" in the subject, because there are certainly many other "solutions". I didn't know about the problems and thought this would be the easiest and quickest way to do something about it...
Just that I understand things completely: Presumably you are using the configuration options: - "Light Table settings": [x] Hide toolbar in fullscreen mode - "Image editor" : [x] Hide toolbar in fullscreen mode Note sure how one can have an album view, switched to full-screen mode, such that the toolbar is visible before going to full-screen, but not in full-screen mode ...
Created attachment 22101 [details] provide a right-mouse button popup entry to leave fullscreen mode This is the intermediate status of the patch. Issues: a) this should only be active when in fullscreen mode (I.e., how to find out in albumiconview.cpp that one is in fullscreen mode? See the place marked by FIXME.) b) Should we also add such an menu option if one is in preview mode in fullscreen mode? c) The same type of additional RMB entry should be also done for the full-screen mode of the image-editor. Gilles, after a decision on b) and c), and if the overall structure and approach of this patch is ok, I will continue work on it.
Regarding Comment #7: Sorry again! "Image editor" : [x] Hide toolbar in fullscreen mode was checked! (Regarding Comment #6, I was refering to the menu entry "Settings", where there's a "hide toolbar" and "hide statusbar" as first and second entry, and I wasn't aware of the entries in the digikam configuration. I also was not aware that "Image editor settings" are also valid for the view mode) Nevertheless, I still think that a "toggle fullscreen" functionality should be intuitively found by a user even if the toolbar is hidden (which was the default here). About Comment #8 issue a: "Toggle fullscreen mode" (Ctrl-Shift-F) makes also sense in non-fullscreen mode. But in non-fullscreen mode it's certainly not that important and if you want the RMB menu not to be too crowded, the suggested behaviour is presumably the better solution. issue b+c: I think there should be always an easy way back from fullscreen mode. If there's a "KDE way of doing this" (Comment #1): great, but the user should be aware of such a way and therefore it should be intuitive/ easy to find. @Arnd Baecker: THANK YOU FOR THE PATCH!
Is this one still valid? Andi
*** Bug 196920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Well it is not difficult to add an action in the context menu, and I think we should do it. How should an unexperienced user ever get out of fullscreen if he doesn't know the default keyboard shortcut, especially when the toolbar is hidden? Gwenview also handles it this way. We could hide this action when not in fullscreen mode, but display it when we are fullscreen. This should be easy with the ContextMenuHelper. Another problem: The option for hiding the toolbar in fullscreen mode is located in the image editor tab, but actually it applies to AlbumUI as well. I would move this setting into the general (misc) tab instead.
Or duplicate the settings option into "Album View" as well and handle them separately.
My wishlist item in bug #192424 is another way to handle this. You could add the RMB menu option, but also have an "autohide" option for the tool-bar that makes it appear when the mouse pointer is moved to the edge of the screen.
This patch need to be adapted to git/master. Also, it do not handle all digiKam views which can be switched to full screen mode. It must be extended... Gilles Caulier
Arnd, Do you see my comment #15 ? Gilles Caulier
The fullscreen action is already added to the context menu, therefore I'll close this one as WORKSFORME