Re: [Kde-graphics-devel] Meta info display in Gwenview

On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Aurelien Gateau wrote:
> I believe the following information would be of interest:
> - Image resolution
> - Shooting date
> - Flash info
> Maybe "Exposure Time" would be interesting too

i think even the first two would be enough for most people; for people more 
interested in photos it could perhaps have a way to easily expand it to show 
more info. but that's the kind of streamlining we can do post-4.0 as well =)

> Displaying meta info in Gwenview should take place in two places:
> In the fullscreen bar, like Gwenview 1.4 did, and in the "Information"
> group of the sidebar.
>
> The code to extract meta information is already there. What remains to
> be done is to present this information in a nice way.

great, so the code should be relatively minimal and really is completing a 
feature rather than starting a new one. you have my full support for adding 
this in for 4.0.

> In the case of the "Information" group, I think the widget should
> display this information by default. Below the displayed meta info,
> there should be a "More" button, which would popup a dialog showing
> more information, and give the user to select which information he is
> interested in. I am thinking about a QListView with three columns:
> title, value, display.
> Giving the user the ability to choose more information to display by
> default should fit the needs of more advanced users without disturbing
> non-experts.

sounds good =) would be nice to get rid of the dialog at some point, perhaps 
by overlaying the information on the photo itself ...

> For the fullscreen bar, I propose doing it the same way as in Gwenview
> 1.4: a QLabel displays the necessary information. The content of this
> label is defined using keywords, configurable from the config dialog.

as a nice graphical touch, making the background slight translucent could be 
quite nice; particularly with a slight gradient you could easily achieve a 
slightly "glassy" look to the background while still making the text quite 
readable.

(i love qt4's painting =)

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