Created attachment 137572 [details] More compact thumbnail view as inspiration It would be useful with a more compact thumbnail view, with less space around the thumbnails, especially a reduction of space above and below each image. When the user just wants to browse and classify images with tags and stars, and perhaps rotate and delete some images, it's helpful to use large thumbnails, but at the same time see many thumbnails on-screen at once for an overview. There is currently still a lot of space above and below each image, even if the user turns OFF things like "show filename", "show creation date" or "show rotation overlay buttons". It would be useful to be able to see at least 5 columns x 3 rows of images, and perhaps even 5 columns x 4 rows, at the same time (in full screen view). A photo app that has a better compact thumbnail view is Lyn (www.lynapp.com - see attached screenshot), which might perhaps be used as inspiration (even though this one too could be more compact). A compact thumbnail view option could be a setting in DigiKam under Preferences -> Views -> Icons, such as perhaps "Minimize space above and below thumbnails".
Maik, We can gain free space in icon view with a simplification of color label proposed in bug #448045. Gilles
Git commit 3456bc86b2229d7796886f899085420cbf1398b0 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 18/09/2024 at 06:27. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. use a line under the thumbnail for the color label BUGS: 448045 FIXED-IN: 8.5.0 M +1 -1 NEWS M +2 -2 core/app/items/delegate/itemdelegate.cpp M +28 -17 core/libs/widgets/itemview/itemviewdelegate.cpp M +1 -1 core/libs/widgets/itemview/itemviewdelegate.h M +2 -2 core/utilities/import/items/importdelegate.cpp M +26 -17 core/utilities/import/items/itemviewimportdelegate.cpp M +1 -1 core/utilities/import/items/itemviewimportdelegate.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/3456bc86b2229d7796886f899085420cbf1398b0
Maik, The other entry to gain space in icon view is this entry about the new option to hide the thumbnails frame: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411622 Gilles
Maik, I have an idea, and i would to know your viewpoint: Add a new option for the thumbnail view to synchronize the image properties sidebar tab when the mouse move over the thumbs. Typically it will be an alternative to the tooltips. I'm not sure if it's a good idea because the left sidebar is used also to apply changes on items. But in image properties view we can duplicate and extend the tooltip contents in a new tab. This one and only this one will follow the mouse move, the rest will depend of the selection from the icon view. The vertical sidebar tab as enough space to show all the desired users wish. My best Gilles