Bug 138055

Summary:	usability: separate edit actions into Edit Toolbar with frequently used actions
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Component:	Usability-Toolbars	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	xmlgui RC file for image editor window

Description Will Stephenson 2006-11-29 01:02:22 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The image editor in digikam is quite sparse, with almost all the actual editing actions hidden in the menus.  

I think the editor would be more efficient if frequent edit actions were provided in or moved to a separate Edit Toolbar and the main toolbar kept for just view control and save/save as.

Candidates for the edit toolbar are: 
Undo
Redo
<sep>
Rotate 270
Rotate 90
Rotate menu
<sep>
Crop
Add Text
Red Eye
Colours->Auto Correction

I had a quick hack at this but plugins' actions don't show up, and I haven't had a proper look at the code yet - maybe plugins' actions are in a different collection.

Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2006-11-29 01:03:46 UTC

Created attachment 18721 [details]
xmlgui RC file for image editor window

"redeyes" is not visible with this rc file.

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2006-11-29 07:42:48 UTC

Will,

This point have been already discuted in the past on B.K.O. You can customize yourself the toolbar using the Settings/Configure Toolbar menu entry. Image Editor/Showfoto will remember this settings between section. No need to change something in standard configuration.

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2006-11-29 10:44:06 UTC

Gilles, 

Can you point me to the past discussion?  I did a superficial search before reporting but didn't see any bug descriptions that matched.

--

Of course, I'm aware that KDE toolbars can be customised by each user. 

My opinion is that 
i) it would be of benefit to digikam to make the suggested actions available, because it becomes faster to access these most frequently accessed actions for everyone.

ii) a separate Edit toolbar is a better implementation than just adding every action to the Main toolbar, because it separates tasks and allows the Edit toolbar to be moved independently of the Main toolbar.  You will agree, this is only possible by editing the ui rc files manually.

So instead of asking you to make this possible, I am suggesting that it would be a good idea to implement the already possible in the standard configuration.

NB - i am not a usability expert, and my only user research is watching my gf laboriously rotate every portrait image by hand when downloading photos.  This is just a hunch - oh, and I did some 'competitor analysis' of f-spot and saw that it has actions in toolbars (aside from its killer feature of instant-apply Crop and no Undo :P)