Digikam GSoC 2012 Camera User Interface Revamp

This page is meant to gather information about the GSoC 2012 Idea, Camera User Interface Revamp.

Requirements and Considerations

Summary

DigiKam features a graphical interface to access and download pictures from digital cameras. Code is rather old, using Qt3Support classes for the icon view, the UI code intermangled deeply with backend code, and has not seen very much care and love for some years.

This project would involve taking the old code apart, rewriting a clean code base backend and front-end, but also adding user interface elements to make the most important everyday task as easy as possible.

More Details

In more detail: Write a model listing images on a camera (There are two backends, USB mass storage cameras, which are basically files on disk, and GPhoto2 cameras, which require access through a library). Take the existing digikam icon view and delegate classes, which are prepared for code re-use, and put together an icon view for the model. Cleanly separate the code that does the actual work (downloading, converting, renaming) from the UI. Wrap that in the main window.

User Interface design: the current one is powerful, exposing many options. We want to preserve that. But at the same time, there are three very common actions:

a) Download all new files to the last used album

b) Download all new files to a new album

c) Download all new files to an existing album.

It should be possible to carry out task (a) with one click, task (b) and (c) with two or three clicks, without opening a dialog. Friendly to the new user, preserving access to all options for the poweruser.

Creation Date	14-February-2012
Status	Proposal
Maintainers	Gilles Caulier - Development	Marcel Wiesweg - Development	Islam Wazery - Development

Description & Related Work

Introduction

Some text goes here introducing the proposed functionalities.

I propose to change its name from Camera Interface to Import Interface

Functionality Listing

Import selected photos
Import all photos
Pause importing
Cancel importing
Hide imported photos
Toggle Lock
Select type of files to be shown
Upload photos
Close
Thumbnails
Select all
Select none
Select locked items
Select new Items
Invert selection
Delete new
Delete selected
Delete all
Show History
Full screen mode
Mark as downloaded

Scope

Design

There are two proposed ways to launch the Camera Interface.

First is the current used one from Import > Add files, which opens a dialog to select the files which you want to add.
Second is to launch the camera interface from Import menu without specifying anything and the Camera Interface will be empty with a line "Click import button to begin" which lightroom uses.

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UI/UX Design For the First Proposed Way

Mockup for album view in cameragui

Download options

3 Mockups for the three common actions in cameragui
Pause option
Assigning tags while importing
Photo grouping
Video preview in cameragui

UI/UX Design For the Second Proposed Way

Implementation

Project repository: [1]

Affected Modules

Primary Modules

Name of module	Description of changes

Secondary Modules

Name of module	Description of changes

Relevant Bugs

URL	Name of Bug
121310	Allow to have a group of pictures.
126149	Camera stores both jpeg and raw (nef), handle both as one.
158437	Add ability to create/assign tags to pictures while importing.
216491	Camera interface view does not work to preview movies.

Project Timeline

TODO

Here is a technical TODO list relevant of this project.

Milestone name	Milestone description	Assigned to	Status
		Islam Wazery	In Progress

Completed

Milestone name	Milestone description	Assigned to	Status

Note

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