Bug 241729

Summary: provide way to fade out UI for judging image with less distracting surroundings
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Droebbel Melta <droebbel.melta>
Component: Usability-ErgonomyAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, friiduh
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.5.0
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Description Droebbel Melta 2010-06-14 14:23:30 UTC 
Version:           1.3.0 (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

Even with a dark grey theme the UI sometimes makes concentrating on the image a bit difficult. Full screen view is an option (though a menu bar is still there then), but tools can not be used in that view.

How about an option to darken the UI by keyboard shortcut with three steps: 1. normal 2. dark, but only just visible, making it still possible to use sliders, curves etc 3. completely blacken everything but image

It would be best if all the screen would be covered by that, though that may be a bit difficult.

I think that feature would be useful for image editor as well as album and light table.

I saw the feature in LR3 and it was one of the few things I really liked.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Fri13 2010-06-14 17:03:26 UTC 
There is a wish for sidepanels being shown when digiKam or showFoto (image editor) is set as fullscreen so user can use tools. The menubar can be hided with Ctrl+M even then. And there are ideas to get it hided without compromising the tools usage.

And then there is a wish for shortcut what would hide both sidepanels (or just one per time) so user gets only the photo. It would be similar to GIMP TAB-shortcut.
Comment 2 Droebbel Melta 2010-06-15 00:13:29 UTC 
I do not think this can be solved via themes, as these would affect neither icons nor window decoration nor panel.

There was once a plugin for a compositing window manager (compiz maybe) which darkened all but the current window as a "concentration aid". If the image could be placed on a borderless palette-like "window" (not acting like a window, just to tell the window manager which part not to darken), the effect itself could be done by kwin etc.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2014-08-29 23:04:16 UTC 
Sound like this wish depend fully of windows manager rules, not an application like digiKam.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2015-01-05 14:26:19 UTC 
sounds like an in-application feature to me and nothing the window manager could reasonably do -> back to digikam.
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2015-01-05 17:36:07 UTC 
If you want to improve readability of photos, just use a dark color theme to increase contrast around image. This is what all other pro photo-management program do.

Gilles Caulier