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Improve generic range filters

Open elstoc opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

As with the star filters, the generic range filters have some readability issues (arguably more so) when pinned to the top bar. For example, I managed to pin the following filters (capture date, aperture, focal length) to the top bar. This is what it looks like:

Screenshot_2022-05-25_07-55-23

The only way to read these filters is by hovering over and waiting for the tooltip to appear (though readability is better in the collection filters module).

I agree that these filters make selecting things easier but they are virtually impossible to read so IMO they still only do half a job. I'm also not convinced that the histogram-like display is particularly useful without some axis labels (which obviously would make the widgets too high/complex). I kind of have similar feelings about the timeline view in the lighttable, but at least that has year indicators along the x axis.

elstoc avatar May 25 '22 07:05 elstoc

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github-actions[bot] avatar Jul 25 '22 00:07 github-actions[bot]

These filters still need improvement

elstoc avatar Jul 29 '22 16:07 elstoc

there is a good reason when dealing with dates everyone uses a calendar ... those other two should be drop downs you need to see the actual values, are we to remember some QR patterns instead of it saying 50mm or F1.8 ? this is crazy

emko avatar Aug 06 '22 22:08 emko

Maybe we should highlight and label the the most commonly used value.

This way it would be clear which pattern shows which criteria: image

If the drop-down-icon is used to open the list of values, then right-click could be used to change the graphical interface to a text-field entry:

focal length: >=50

quovadit avatar Oct 02 '22 20:10 quovadit

Good that you're thinking of stuff, but IMO that's not any better, and potentially misleading if you're only showing a single value.

elstoc avatar Oct 02 '22 20:10 elstoc

that's true, so what about showing the selected range: image

quovadit avatar Oct 03 '22 05:10 quovadit

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github-actions[bot] avatar Dec 03 '22 00:12 github-actions[bot]

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github-actions[bot] avatar Feb 01 '23 00:02 github-actions[bot]

This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 300 days since being marked as stale. Please check if the newest release or nightly build has it fixed. Please, create a new issue if the issue is not fixed.

github-actions[bot] avatar Nov 29 '23 00:11 github-actions[bot]