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Bug 740415 - Photos view - show date headings
Photos view - show date headings
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-photos
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME photos maintainer(s)
GNOME photos maintainer(s)
: 742436 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-11-20 10:31 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2018-01-23 09:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
simple mockup (24.11 KB, image/png)
2014-11-20 10:31 UTC, Allan Day 		Details

Description Allan Day 2014-11-20 10:31:42 UTC 
Created attachment 291074 [details]
simple mockup

Photos are strongly connected to the date on which they are taken. Grouping the photos in the recent view by date, and showing date headings, would therefore provide a natural ordering which would make it easier to browse.

It will also help to communicate what the view is showing, since the date headings reinforce that the view is time ordered.

A simple mockup is attached.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2014-11-21 17:38:40 UTC 
I would show a date heading for each day. Date headings should follow a pattern that is both succinct and human readable. Examples:

Today - "Today"
Yesterday - "Yesterday"
Current week or previous three days - "Tuesday"
Prior to current week/previous three days, but this year - "10th December"
Previous year - "10th December 2012"

This will need some localisation, of course. (As a side note, there has been discussion about putting date formats like this into GLib.)
Comment 2 Debarshi Ray 2015-01-06 10:37:58 UTC 
*** Bug 742436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Allan Day 2015-06-17 16:02:28 UTC 
Ideally, each date would act as an automatic folder, which could be opened by clicking no a date heading.

Also, note that we'd like to show date headings in the starred view.
Comment 4 Allan Day 2015-06-18 16:59:17 UTC 
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #3)
> Ideally, each date would act as an automatic folder, which could be opened
> by clicking no a date heading.

Actually, I take that back. Jakub pointed out that this would interrupt the "photos as stream" idea, which I agree with. What would be good, though, is to allow selecting days from selection mode (by showing a check box next to each heading). This would allow sharing a day's shooting, for example.
 
> Also, note that we'd like to show date headings in the starred view.

This we want to keep. :)
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-23 09:22:58 UTC 
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