Diseño de la interfaz

Áreas y barras

digiKam’s main window has two areas in the center showing your photographs. One is the Icon Area ③, showing thumbnails of the content of the selected album or of a search result, and the other one the Preview Area ④, showing the selected image. Together let’s call them the Image Area ⑤. In the top left corner of the preview we have a few buttons ⑨ for moving back and forth through the content of the album, for rotating the image, for showing or adding face tags and to switch to full screen mode. By clicking on the preview you can make it disappear and by clicking on the picture area of a thumbnail open it again.

The digiKam Main Window

Interface Areas, Toolbars and Buttons in the Main Window:

① Menu Bar
② Main Toolbar
③ Icon (Thumbnail) Area
④ Preview Area
⑤ Image Area = Icon + Preview Area
⑥ Left Sidebar (with tabs)
⑦ Right Sidebar (with tabs)
⑧ Status Bar
⑨ Buttons: Navigation, Rotation, Face Tags, Full Frame

The Image Area in the center is surrounded by the menu bar ① and the Main Toolbar ② at the top, the Status Bar ⑧ at the bottom as well as the Left Sidebar ⑥ and Right Sidebar ⑦. The Left Sidebar lets you switch between nine “Views”: Albums (shown here), Tags, Labels, Dates, Timeline, Search, Similarity, Map and People. The Right Sidebar can be used to show information about your images, to apply filters to select images, and to select actions to be applied to selected images. You can use all these views to organize and find your photographs. You can collapse or expand the sidebar areas by clicking on the sidebar tabs.

Don’t worry if your main window looks different than the image above. You will soon learn how to switch the different areas on and off and at some point you might get a look very similar to the above screenshot.

Drag & Drop of images works about everywhere: d&d an image into another branch of the album tree, across the horizontal album separation line, or to another application window. The only restriction is that you cannot d&d into tag, date or searches.

La barra de estado

La barra de estado de la ventana principal de digiKam

The status bar at the bottom shows:

  • El nombre de archivo cuando se selecciona un archivo individual.

  • Información sobre la selección cuando se seleccionan varios elementos.

  • Filtros rápidos:

    • Information on how many filters are active.

    • Un botón con una papelera para reiniciar todos los filtros activos.

    • Un botón con un embudo para abrir el panel de preferencias de filtrado.

  • A progress bar for batch processes, such as assigning tags or rebuild fingerprints.

  • A thumbnail and preview image size slider with buttons for «Fit to Window» and «Zoom to 100%».

  • A size selection pop up list measured in % for the preview image.

Barra de herramientas principal

The Main Toolbar appears at the top of the window.

La barra de herramientas de la ventana principal de digiKam

  1. Abrir el editor de imágenes con la imagen seleccionada

  2. Abrir la mesa de luz L

  3. Abrir el gestor de colas por lotes B

  4. Importar (menú desplegable que muestra todas las cámaras y dispositivos de almacenamiento masivo conectados)

  5. Cambiar a la vista de miniaturas

  6. Conmutar la vista previa de las imágenes seleccionadas

  7. Cambiar a la vista de mapa para mostrar las imágenes con los datos de geolocalización

  8. Cambiar a la vista de tabla configurable

  9. Menú desplegable de presentación

  10. Conmutar el modo a pantalla completa Ctrl+Shift+F

  11. Enlace a digikam.org, también un indicador de los procesos en curso

You can customize the Toolbar by choosing Settings ‣ Configure Toolbars… or click with the right mouse button on it and choose Configure Toolbars… from the context menu.