"display meta data" entry in context menu should be in main menu, not in Operations submenu

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In the right pane, where small pictures are displayed, right clicking on a
picture displays the context menu.

To me, having the "display meta data" entry in Operations submenu is not
intuitive, it should rather be in main menu (like "Add to basket" etc.)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thibaut....@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 12:21

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Actually, I am wondering if the current way of displaying the metadata is 
correct:
jumping from the metadata of a picture to the metadata of another is a tedious
process. I suggest metadata could be displayed as a pane which could be 
switched on
or off and which would always display the metadata of the selected thumbnail if 
there
is only one thumbnaili selected. If more than one thumbnail is selected, the 
metadata
pane could be left empty, or it could display only the metadata which are the 
same
for all selected pictures.

Original comment by davito...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 9:00

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or meta data could be displayed in a tab of the left panel when a photo is 
maximised
(then jBrout GUI would need some graphical stuff to let the user know that a 
panel
can be opened when a photo is maximised since keying Inser is hardly 
discoverable)

Original comment by thibaut....@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 10:09

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I agree , but not for the "or": we could have it both ways. Having metadata in 
full
view would be nice too since it is often when viewing a photo in full view that 
we
wonder: "how was thios taken?". But having easy and permanent metadata display 
in
thumbnail view is useful too because it can allow to select pictures on metadata
values. Often, for example, I want to select pictures which were taken at the 
same
ISO, or the same speed...

About the left pane in full view: I agree the Insert key is quite non-standard. 
I
don't know about the Linux world, but nowhere is the Insert key used this way in
Windows AFAIK. IMO, using the F10 key would have been slightly better since F10 
is
normally used to reach the main menu and the left pane can be perceived as a 
kind of
menu. Anyhow, there should be a mouse-only way to switch the left pane off or 
on.
Some software use a nice trick: buttons or panes which appear only when the 
mouse
pointer comes to a specific portion of the screen. For example, jBrout could 
display
the left pane if the mouse pointer hits the left border of the window or 
screen. Once
popped on, I suggest the left pane should have a close button which would allow 
to
close it with the mouse.

Original comment by davito...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 10:26

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About the left pane in full view: see issue 62

Original comment by thibaut....@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 10:33

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Original request resolved in r198

Original comment by r...@wallace.gen.nz on 7 Jul 2009 at 11:06

• Changed state: Fixed