Version: (using KDE 4.4.0) Installed from: openSUSE RPMs Proposed Menu Changes! Please Help me decide if Digikam should use the term 'Folder' or 'Album'. Currently I'm using the term "Folder" since it best describes what is being displayed. I welcome any comments on changes. Lines with "-" in front of them are part of a submenu, and lines in brackets "[ ]" can be toggled. "-LINE-" designates a line inserted between items. Not all "-LINE-" have been inserted yet so please dont comment if you see one missing somewhere. File: Import -Images -Folder -From Camera -From USB Storage Device (Maybe change this to just Storage Device?) -From Card Reader -From Scanner -From Remote Computer -From Facebook -From Smugmug Export -To Email -To HTML -To Remote Computer -To Gallery... -To 23 -To Facebook -To Flash -To Flickr -To Ipod -To KML -To PicasaWeb -To Smugmug -To Zoomr -LINE- Print Print Assistant -LINE- Rename Move to Trash (Folder if no images selected in Album view or selected Image(s) – Request Confirmation) Delete (Same options as 'Move to Trash') -LINE- Properties Open With -Showfoto -Gwenview -Other Application (List taken from KDE Application Preference Order for image or folder) -LINE- Quit Edit: Undo -(Up to 10 Changes) Redo -(Up to 10 Changes) -LINE- Cut Copy Paste -LINE- Select All Deselect All Invert Selection View: View Mode -[Album View] -[Image View] [Fullscreen] Slideshow -Selected Images -Folder -Folder and Subfolders -Advanced Slideshow -LINE- Zoom In Zoom Out Actual Size (formerly Zoom to 100%) Fit to Window -LINE- [Show Thumbbar] [Show Left Sidebar] [Show Right Sidebar] -LINE- [Include Sub-Trees] (formerly Include Album Sub-tree & Include Tag-Subtree) Folder: Back -(Up to 10 changes) Forward -(Up to 10 changes) New... Refresh Sort by... -Category -Date -Name Image: Sort by... -Date -File Path -File Size -Name -Rating -LINE- [Ascending] [Descending] Group Images (What is this and why is it needed?) -Flat List -By Album -By Format Rotate -Left -Right -Auto Rotate Flip -Horizontally -Vertically -Auto Flip Tag -New Tag -(List of Tags for selected images) Rating -1 Star -2 Stars -3 Stars -4 Stars -5 Stars Metadata -Refresh -Edit Metadata -Write to Image -Write to All Images (formerly Write Metadata to All Images) Location -Edit Coordinates -Edit Track List (formerly Track List Editor) -Correlations (formerly Correlator) -Remove Coordinates Adjust Date & Time (formerly Adjust Time & Date) Tools: Search (Advanced Search renamed) Find -Duplicates -Similar Rebuild Thumbnails Rebuild Fingerprints (Could potentially use a more easily understood name) -LINE- Image Editor Light Table -Place onto Light Table -Add to Light Table Batch Queue Manager -Add to Current Queue -Add to Existing Queue -(list of precious queues) -Add to New Queue Create Calendar -LINE- Convert to Black & White Red-Eye Removal Border Images Color Images Convert Images Image Effects Filter Images Recompress Images Resize Images Blend Bracketed Images (will maybe remove, when ran it says its not installed) DNG Converter Batch RAW Converter -LINE- Components Information Database Statistics Settings: [Main Toolbar] Toolsbars Shown -[Main Toolbar] -[Statusbar] -LINE- Change Theme -(List of Available Themes) Configure Shortcuts Configure Toolbars Configure Digikam Help: What's This? Tip of The Day Digikam Handbook Kipi Plugins Handbook -LINE- Report Bug Contribute Donate -LINE- About Digikam About KDE Taken Out: Open in Dolphin (Obsolete by 'Open With') Open in Terminal (Obsolete by 'Open With') Configure Notifications (Should be in 'Configure Digikam') Switch Application Language (Should be in 'Configure Digikam') Supported RAW Cameras (Should be in 'Import>From Camera') Scan for New Images (Does same thing as 'Refresh' in Folder Menu) OpenGL Image View (Practically same thing as slideshow)
Album, not Folder Gilles Caulier
I was debating between folder and album, but I agree that it should be Album. This is because the Album view shows not only folders, but groups of images by date, location, and tags. I've also made a few other changes to the menu, but instead of continuously reposting the entire menu after every little change I'll edit my KDE Interface and Design forum post to show revisions as they're made. http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=85644
I vote for albums and not folders. Even that they are same thing in techinical way, we use it different way in photographin. And albums is the place to store photos. This is now how I can see it as you wrote (needed to write it how it looks when you open the menu first time without sub-menus): ----------[File]---------- Import > Export > ---------- Print Print Assistant ---------- Rename Move to Trash ---------- Delete ---------- Properties Open With > ---------- Quit ----------[Edit]---------- View Mode > Fullscreen Slideshow > ---------- Zoom In Zoom Out Acutal Size Fit to Window ---------- [ ] Show Thumbbar [ ] Show Left Sidebar [ ] Show Right Sidebar ---------- Include Sub-Trees ----------[Albumb]---------- Back > Forward > New Refresh Sort by... > ----------[Image]---------- Sort by... > Group Images > ---------- Rotate > Flip > Tag > Rating > ---------- Metadata > Location > Adjust Date & Time ----------[Tools]---------- Search Find > Rebuild Thumbnails Rebuild Fingerprints ---------- Image Editor Light Table > Batch Queue Manager > Create Calendar ---------- Convert to Black and White Red-Eye Removal Border Images Color Images Convert Images Image Effects Filter Images Recompress Images Resize Images Blend Bracketed Images DNG Converter Batch RAW Converter ---------- Components Information Database Statitcs ----------[Settings]---------- [ ] Main Toolbar Toolbars Shown > ---------- Change Theme > Configure Shortcuts Conrigure Toolbars Configure digiKam (not Digikam) ----------[Help]---------- What is This? Tip of The Day DigiKam Handbook Kipi-Plugins Handbook ---------- Report a Bug Contribute Donate ---------- About digiKam About KDE ----------------------------------------------- "Scan for New Images (Does same thing as 'Refresh' in Folder Menu)" But does refresh in album menu update the album or just the collection or all collections? Because now the Refresh only refresh the current album and not all the collections like the Scan new Images. We have two different functions what to use. "OpenGL Image View (Practically same thing as slideshow)" Yes practically but other needs 3D enabled to be a fast. Other does not and is without effects.
I have now being thinkin this and I see that Import and Export menus should be kept alone as own menus. It is easier to use and it allows simpler text in them. If we would call menu like "Export to" and "Import from", we could drop off the repeated "to" and "from" text from menu. And we can not bring the "file" menu because it is better if we do not manage files but just photos. We can this way drop away from the file-oriented UI and stay on task-oriented UI. = We do not transfer files but we transfer photos. I am not sure about the idea to include "Email photos" to export menu because it is more sending than exporting. And the Album menu looks for me it overlaps someway the View and Image (what I think should be as "Photo"/"Selection") and few other menus. Example now KDE is planning to move many entries from Settings to View, like toolbars and menubar options.
Supreme, This file still valid using digiKam 2.4 ? Gilles Caulier
The digiKam Album GUI menu have been already fixed in the past. The changes proposed in this files have been followed a little bit. Other one do not respect GUI ergonmy and KDE GUI style. I close this file now... Gilles Caulier