SUMMARY This may be biased towards my own environment. It seems there is a lot of excess space in the sidebar, which defaults to the "Information" tab when viewing files or directories. In particular it seems most objects lack metadata, and the "Description" metadata seems particularly unused/unloved. Conversely, to view "Properties" users must either right click the object or go to File > Properties. It seems intuitively this information should be available alongside the "Information", and the user shouldn't be expected to take strange routes to reach Properties. We could add the Properties as a tab or merge into "Information". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Browse to a file or directory OBSERVED RESULT Must right-click or go to "File" to reach Properties EXPECTED RESULT Ideally this would be available in the sidebar or even merged with Information.
Agreed; there's probably a nice way to merge these. Semantically, "Information" and "Properties" are not readily distinct entities, so keeping them separate isn't ideal.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/221
Git commit 6545c47de9fdf830739737c52cbeaa2ce6a6411c by Nate Graham, on behalf of K. Cottonears. Committed on 07/09/2023 at 16:35. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Combine File Properties and Information Purges file properties and moves some of the general file properties into the file information section. M +5 -0 lib/document/document.cpp M +38 -5 lib/imagemetainfomodel.cpp M +3 -0 lib/imagemetainfomodel.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/commit/6545c47de9fdf830739737c52cbeaa2ce6a6411c