Created attachment 104896 [details] screenshot mockup of current album header and collapsed / expanded possible enhancement I have two small suggestions for the album view: display of number of images and removal of (IMHO unnecessary) text, and allowing to collapse the thumbnails of one album (like in iPhoto). See attached screenshot. With the left side arrow pointing down, the view is expanded and the album's thumbnails are visible below. With the arrow pointing right, the view is collapsed and there are no thumbnails (and subalbums fo the collapsed album) visible. A Ctrl-click (or Shift-click) on the arrow could in addition collapse / expand *all* albums' thumbnails of the current view. The arrow status (collapsed / expanded) would need to be saved in the albums' metadata. This slight UI change has several advantages: - less strings to translate, - metadata like date and number of images is easier to find (right-aligned), - less (vertical) screen space required (important for today's 16:9 displays) if album name, date and number of images tag fit beside (otherwise the date and the number of images would need to wrap), - I can view the contents of several albums at once (e.g. to compare or find images, or to split/merge albums), even if they are not chronologically beside each other. This is what I did in iPhoto (it used to have the same view) and actually my main reason for this suggestion. I think it would make a nice UI improvement for the albums view. What do you think?
Any comment regarding this issue? Volunteers? I think this is a nice UI usability improvement.
Yes the mockup is excellent. It's in my TODO list to assign this job to a possible student. Gilles Caulier
Excellent idea! I was wonderring exactly the same. If this view would be exist, I could move the additional information besides the date (like "YYYY-MM-DD City - Event") from the name of physically folder of photos to the description of logically album and have a comfortable way to browse them. I strongly support this improvement and I hope for a quick implementation. Best regards, Paul
Maik, This is an interesting idea with a mockup to improve Album view in the future... Gilles