Bug 348197

Summary:	Headline in Image Editor is NOT Helpful
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Axel Krebs <axel.krebs>
Component:	Usability-Ergonomy	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, veaceslav.munteanu90
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.6.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Axel Krebs 2015-05-25 07:39:34 UTC

´The window of editor window 

>> Bildbearbeitung - Album "name of Album" - digiKam<<

This headline is more or less useless. 
- Everybody knows, that the program "digiKam" has been startet. Within this prog. die title "digiKam"  is neither helpful nor specific.

My suggestion:
>>path, Album, pic name<<

Where >>path, Album<< should be an optional setting, >>pic name<< always present 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above
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Actual Results:  
it is not a feature, it is an build in failure

Expected Results:  
name all windows:
- context sensitive
- specific
- as much as necessary, as less as possible


ergonomic details make software advantageous and preferable or a source of misfit and anger

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2015-05-25 08:45:36 UTC

Are you a software interface ergonomy specialist ?

The application title follow all rules used by all graphical software application. Application name must appear in window title.

Look application titles from Chrome, Firefox, VLC, Libreoffice. All apply the same rules...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Axel Krebs 2015-05-25 11:37:36 UTC

Gilles.

I need to smile about your question "software interface ergonomy specialist ?"
Of course I am not (others too, seemingly). 

However, I know the German website <http://www.ergo-online.de/site.aspx?url=html/software/titel.htm> since years. As much as I know, they are a federal (governmental) office.

They describe in the chapters:
...  Software
    Grundlagen der Software-Ergonomie                          //  The Basics of SW Ergonomics
    Ergonomische Dialoggestaltung                                  // Ergonomical Design of Dialogs
    Ergonomische Maskengestaltung                                // Ergonomical Design of Masks
    Einstellungsmöglichkeiten in SAP®-Systemen: Ergonomische Stellschrauben
                                                                                          // Ergonomical seetings with SAP®-Systems 
    Ergonomische Gestaltung von WWW-Seiten               // Ergonomical Design of Web-Pages 
    Software-Entwicklung & Prototyping                           // Software-Development and Prototyping
    Verfahren zur Beurteilung der Software-Ergonomie    // Procedures to Measure SW-Ergonomics

... Arbeitsorganisation und  


Just some small extraits- if you needed more?

There are always people to know s.th. better than on thought before. 
Sometime it helps to see things as one never had seen these before to deduce new ways.

Hope you will understand and take profit from some of my ideas.

Axel

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2015-05-25 12:49:47 UTC

KDE has already a HIG team to guide developers about common GUI design :

https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG

Gilles Caulier

Comment 4 Axel Krebs 2015-05-25 15:24:32 UTC

Thanks, Gilles.

I came across this topic, as I often work in image editor and more than once asked myself what pic I am working on.... if there was a pics name in the header, this never would have been an issue to think about...

Best,


Axel

Comment 5 Veaceslav Munteanu 2015-05-25 17:07:47 UTC

Axel,

digiKam always show the image name in bottom left corner.

And the reason it shows digiKam - digiKam or Light Table - digiKam is because this info is used by Alt-Tab and other mouse gestures which show all windows on desktop and of course you need to know what program is in that window.

The changes are not hard to be done, but you must convince the whole KDE to do the same.