Version:           1.7.0 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

The digikam center pane, when a preview is displayed, there is always a scrollbar. The scrollbar is at the side for portrait images, at the bottom for landscape images. The scrollbar means that one edge or another of the image is always cut off in the preview. 

No matter how I resize the digikam window, no matter whether I move one or the other or both side panes out of the way, there is always a scrollbar taking up space. The size of the preview changes, from 45% to 67% to 74% to whatever the available space is side-to-side or top-to-bottom. But the scrollbar is always there, taking up just a bit of visual space.

This scrollbar is unnecessary - digikam should just size the image to fit the window: 73% with no scrollbar is MUCH better than 74% with a scrollbar, given that the scrollbar covers part of the image. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open digikam, click on a thumb to display a preview.

Actual Results:  
The scrollbar covers part of the image, requiring scrolling to see the very edges of the image.

Expected Results:  
There should not be a scrollbar covering any part of the image in preview mode, unless one deliberately zooms in on the preview.

Sometimes I take several shots in a row, trying to get a tight "camera-crop" around the subject of the photograph. That scrollbar in the preview makes me think I cut off part of the subject when really I didn't. It is annoying to have to keep scrolling up and down or side to side to see what the very edges of the image look like.

Sometimes I am comparing two images just for composition, and that little bit of scrollbar-covered image distorts the composition.

The preview should fill the available space. It should "fit to window". There shouldn't be a scrollbar.