Bug 503025 - Timeline: Hide clips' thumbnail & texts, while dragging keys over them.
Summary: Timeline: Hide clips' thumbnail & texts, while dragging keys over them.
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kdenlive
Classification: Applications
Component: User Interface & Miscellaneous (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git-master
Platform: Other Other
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
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Reported: 2025-04-19 17:45 UTC by Gabriel Gazzán
Modified: 2025-07-26 11:15 UTC (History)
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cluttered vs. clean area (178.98 KB, image/png)
2025-04-19 17:45 UTC, Gabriel Gazzán
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(sorry, wrong image above) The same image, with some explanations (193.52 KB, image/png)
2025-04-19 17:51 UTC, Gabriel Gazzán
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clip name and effect names, block audio thumbnail in clips (482.82 KB, image/png)
2025-07-26 03:47 UTC, Gabriel Gazzán
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Description Gabriel Gazzán 2025-04-19 17:45:12 UTC
Created attachment 180415 [details]
cluttered vs. clean area

Relevant UI component:
Timeline

Objective:
Try to improve the experience when evaluating current key curves and/or having to change some of the effects keyframe values that are in the same clip area as the image thumbnails and texts.

Current situation:
Thumbnails and texts clutter the area and the display of the graph is not seen cleanly, so making it hard to operate and less simple to evaluate keyframe data (curve shape and keys positions).

Suggestion:
To temporarily hide those UI elements when relevant.

Hiding trigger:
1. When hovering a keyframe in the conflicting area.
2. When hovering anywhere in the conflicting area (not just over a key) by pressing a key (Ctrl, etc.)

method (1) having an advantage in discoverability (i.e. the user doesn't have to know about the feature to benefit from it).

Note: An attached image, simply illustrates the difference between having all those concurrent UI elements vs. a clean background, in the area.

Thanks for listening!
Comment 1 Gabriel Gazzán 2025-04-19 17:51:07 UTC
Created attachment 180416 [details]
(sorry, wrong image above) The same image, with some explanations
Comment 2 Gabriel Gazzán 2025-07-26 03:47:35 UTC
Created attachment 183523 [details]
clip name and effect names, block audio thumbnail in clips

Today a user in a Facebook group reported an inconvenience that is related to this issue.
Attached is a screen capture of his report.
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-07-26 08:55:35 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/688
Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Mardelle 2025-07-26 11:15:56 UTC
Git commit 63f94ab76e49f7a6dbcb4faf162bdfcd685fafd1 by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle.
Committed on 26/07/2025 at 11:15.
Pushed by mardelle into branch 'release/25.08'.

Hide clip name and effect list when resizing a clip

M  +13   -0    src/timeline2/view/qml/Clip.qml

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/commit/63f94ab76e49f7a6dbcb4faf162bdfcd685fafd1