GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740415
Photos view - show date headings
Last modified: 2015-12-08 10:43:38 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.
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.)
*** Bug 742436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
(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. :)