Bug 174070

Summary: enhancement tools should be not in the menu, but in the toolbar on the right
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Benjamin Schulz <Benjamin_Schulz>
Component: Usability-ErgonomyAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: Benjamin_Schulz, carlos.bessa, caulier.gilles, pollycoke, zed
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.10.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 2.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Benjamin Schulz 2008-11-02 02:32:05 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I have the following request:

Now, when one selects an "enhancement" tool to edit a picture, the settings of these tools are in the latest Digikam Beta 5 shown up sideways on the right of the editing window.

But why must one still select the tools through the menu?

Why is it not possible, to select the enhancement tools from the toolbar at the right side? or through a tab on the right side?

The reason for this proposal is the following:

When editing a raw picture, one must often take many enhancement tools into account. Maybe sharpening, noise, colors, and this repeatedly.

When each plugin would be stored on tabs or on the toolbar on the right side, the user could reach the plugins with one click only.

Since in digikam, all enhancement plugins must be selected from a manu, one first has to make one click at the menu "enhancement" and then at the appropriate plugin.

Say, to edit a raw picture, one needs the use of these tools 10 times (since one must see, how the combined effect looks).
If a user has 50 Photos to edit, this makes, with 2 clicks for each tool 1000 clicks.

In case the tools could be selected not from the menu, but from the toolbar on the right, or with tabs on the right after one click, the user would only have to do 500 clicks. 

In fact, most pro software, like photoshop, or bibble works exactly this way.


So this is an important point of usability.
Comment 1 Carlos Bessa 2009-01-30 12:21:48 UTC 
I just want to support this suggestion. 
Having tried other photo software this would be a great usability improvement. 
Transform tools are already in the main toolbar so they're fine. But "enhance" and "color" tools are still stuck in the menus.
regards,
Carlos
Comment 2 Benjamin Schulz 2009-05-04 21:49:25 UTC 
I actually mean the toolbar on the right. Not the main toolbar. 
If one currently activates an enhancement tool from the menu, there appears an entry of it in the toolbar on the very right (the place where one can also find things like properties, metadata, color, geolocation, caption, tags.

However, when the tool has done its action, it disappears from the toolbar on the right and can only be reactivated via the menu. I just want to have all enhancement and transform tools permanently as buttons on that toolbar on the right. So, one could access them with one single click.
And not with two clicks (one for the menu, one for the tool).

This would just save time.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2010-01-14 15:40:30 UTC 
*** Bug 187657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Mike Fink 2010-01-21 20:58:12 UTC 
Though "Bug 155406 -  wish: extra tool bar in the image editor" is not exactly a duplicate of this entry, I would welcome if both wishes where combined. Having the tools on the right hand side with a more serious order than just stuffing every available tool in there would be a great step forward in terms of usability for the image editor.
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2011-11-24 10:23:16 UTC 
Following bug 155406, which have been fixed with 2.x serie, i think it's enough to solve this entry...

Gilles Caulier