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
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.
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.
Sound like this wish depend fully of windows manager rules, not an application like digiKam. Gilles Caulier
sounds like an in-application feature to me and nothing the window manager could reasonably do -> back to digikam.
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