Bug 423657

Summary: Wishlist: Table view as default view [patch]
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: fellowbiological
Component: Usability-ErgonomyAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin, ruedihofer
Priority: NOR    
Version: 7.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: restoreLastView.patch

Description fellowbiological 2020-06-29 14:12:11 UTC
SUMMARY
I only use the table view in digiKam and it's kind of annoying that I have to always manually switch from thumbnail view to table view. The ability to set table view as the default view would be much appreciated.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2020-06-29 14:13:44 UTC
I remember that in the past the view mode was recorded in application settings file and restored between sessions...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2020-06-29 18:48:55 UTC
Created attachment 129776 [details]
restoreLastView.patch

This patch would restore the last view, this would also fix bug 370297. The question is, do we want to change the behavior in the digiKam-7.0.0 release?

Maik
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2020-06-30 02:31:07 UTC
Maik,

Good Q. I remember somebody reporting a bug about this a completely opposite way, if i'm not too wrong: never store the last main view mode between sessions.

Right ?

The Q is : what's the risk and why this specific behavior.

If this is true, well, this will require another settings to customize this behavior, and of course, later 7.0.0.

Gilles
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2020-06-30 02:33:27 UTC
Look here : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370297

Gilles
Comment 5 Maik Qualmann 2020-06-30 19:46:18 UTC
I played with it a little. I don't like restoring the last view. If the last view was the preview, the last item should also be restored. Maybe a simple option in the setting to only switch between the icon view and table.

Maik
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2023-05-13 13:11:11 UTC
Maik,

I agree i vote for one option to restore last used view, disabled by default.

Gilles
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2023-05-25 01:55:03 UTC
*** Bug 370297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***