Bug 278577

Summary: Display album thumbnails in welcome page
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component: Albums-WelcomePageAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.0.0

Description S. Burmeister 2011-07-26 19:57:14 UTC 
Version:           2.0.0 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

Currently if one clicks on a collection, i.e. the first item in the tree-structure within the left pane the main pane only displays "Welcome to digikam...".

It would be comfortable if that view displayed the albums of that collection as thumbnails, i.e. a big picture for each album and maybe even the name/date underneath it.

Hovering the thumbnail of an album would  start a slideshow of its pictures, i.e. the thumbnail would change every .75 seconds. 

Clicking on the thumbnail would then open the album.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
click on the first item in the tree structure

Actual Results:  
"welcome to digikam" text shown

Expected Results:  
each album represented by a thumbnail
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2015-05-10 14:10:28 UTC 
Definitively not the way to go in the future. We have re-implemented Welcome Page view to promote new features (as previous version) + a background photo from end user. 

Screenshot :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/16912109390/in/dateposted-public/

Gilles Caulier