Bug 121124

Did you really write 'asap' ? Please provide screenshots of those features, because your description is far from  complete...

asap? when you need it asap, provide a patch.

What shall we do with your report? As Tom already said, provide screenshots or a concept how to change it. Tell us about what you don't like _and_ how it would be better. I close this report, feel free to reopen, when you spend some time to tell us how to change the things you don't like.

Created attachment 14487 [details]
Collage mode in Google Picasa

Hi, I also wanted to note that it is not a 'bug' that i wanted to submit. There is an option that says 'wishlist' and i chose that. Maybe it needs to be more specific its clear that its *not* a bug to be fixed.

Also, asap was more a 'wish' so one can get rid of running Windows programs under wine. As for comments on interface, my wife is a complete newbie with linux and she's been using digikam for quite sometime. However, she now leans towards Picasa (under wine) although its slower. She reckons it does things she wants -- easily.

Apologies if it sounded as if I discovered a bug that needed to be fixed.

I will try and post more screenshots.

It was clear, that this wasn't a bug but a wish.
But for a wish it is even more importent to give more information than "your interface is too heavy for newbies, so change it". 
And asap... people who spends most of its little spare time, developing a free program tend to overact when they read "asap" in their reports ;-)

#1 : Collage is a feature for a new kipi plugin, not digikam itself.

#2 : what do you mean by "Simpler interface to manage image effects and tuning." ?

Gilles Caulier

#1 : Ok.

#2 : Simpler interface may imply putting most often used commands like Sharpen, auto-level correction, etc as buttons on a side panel. Also, the buttons can be large with thumbnails on them that show a preview of what to expect after the effect is applied to the selected photo.
Typical functions I do each time on a picture is Brightness/Contrast, Auto-level correction, sharpen/blur. As an advanced feature, the button panel can be configurable so one can choose the most common functions on it.
Currently, digikam gives a treasure of filters and adjustments one can do only the're hidden in multi-level menus.
The button-panel should make it very newbie friendly and attractive to use.

Thanks for your time.
Kanwar

#1 : please make a new B.K.O file on the right kipi-plugins section, not digiKam. Thanks in advance.

#2 : 

- Large button on side pannel : no, we respect GUI guideline from KDE project to still homogenous. 

- I you speak about main tool bar from Image Editor, This is completly configurable.

- I recommend you to take a look at web project site on Screenshots section. The 0.9.0-beta1 is in the way and all image plugins GUI have been polished. I recommend you to test this implementation using svn trunk branch and that you give a feedback.

Gilles Caulier

#1 is a wish for new kipi-plugins.

#2 is invalid with digikam 0.9.0

Gilles

Idea #2 is not a bad one...

Basically it would mean adding another side panel in the image editor (or maybe just extending the colours side panel). Ideally The controls would work directly on the image without the need for opening of dialogue boxes (I think that krita now handles image previews inline - something like that would be excellent). I understand this would take some serious re-engineering of the codebase an improvement but less desirable approach would be simply to have buttons which bring up the existing dialogs.

This approach is not just for new users. Anybody who processes large amounts of images will appreciate this workflow achievement.

Think of it as grouping all the controls from the filters you use constantly in one big filter that always stays open. 

Collage mode is now implemented in new PhotoLayoutEditor tool

Gilles Caulier