Display user customization

Some visual parts of MyPhotoShare page can be turned on and off by the user with display options in the menu.

The screen map bellow is for an album view. One must do the same with a media view and a search view...

Number	What it is	Can it be tuned by the user?
1	Title	Yes. title: hide it
2	Number of media	Yes. media: show counts. But it touches also the count in album thumbnails 11.
3	Social icons	No
4	Album Caption	Yes. descriptions: hide them. But also 9 and 16.
5	Album Tags	Yes. tags: hide them. But removes also tags 10 and 17.
6	Album Slides	Yes. albums: as slides
6a	Album Square	Yes. albums: square thumbnails
7	Album Spacing	Yes. toggle spacing. But also changes media thumbnails spacing 13.
8	Album Title	Yes. albums: show names
9	Album Description	Yes. descriptions: hide them. But also 4 and 16.
10	Album Tags	Yes. tags: hide them. But removes also tags 17 and 5.
11	Album Count	Yes. media: show count. But changes also 2.
12	Media Square	Yes. media: square thumbnails
13	Media Spacing	Yes. toggle spacing. But also changes album thumbnails spacing 7.
14	Media Title	Yes. media: show names. But also changes 15.
15	Media Filename	Yes. media: show names. But also changes 14.
16	Media Description	Yes. descriptions: hide them. But also 4 and 9.
17	Media Tags	Yes. tags: hide them. But also 4 and 10.

Questions

1. Can the user tune the display as she would like? Not all combinations of display options are possible, but the most sensible are (but see 5 below).

2. Apart from 3, all other display elements can be turned on or off. Do we want to have 3 visibility turned off by the user? The problem with 3 is that it fights for space with the [<] button. Can we put the social icons somewhere else?

3. All bold Yes are menu options for actions on multiple visual elements. Non-bold Yes act on single visual elements. Do we want to split the multiple options to single ones so the user can fine-tune the display? Doing it requires to create other menu entries and make the menu more complex.

4. Problems with naming for menu options acting on multiple elements. If there is a media: or albums: prefix, the user expects that it changes the appearance of only the media or albums thumbnails, but that is not the case presently. I suggest removing the media: or albums: prefix when it makes no sense, for global or multiple actions.

• 2 is supposed to work on media because it's named media: show count. Perhaps rename it only show counts.
• 4 rename to show descriptions.
• 5 rename to show tags.

And the global/multiple actions menu items could be grouped in the menu, so that the user sees there are 3 types of menu entries:

• Global
• Albums
• Media

5. There is no way to hide the media filename but keep the media title. Personally, I miss that feature.

Resulting menu

If we keep the multiple action menu entries but if you rename them to have a simpler naming convention, and after reordering of the menu entries, here is the final result:

• Display
  • show title
  • show descriptions
  • show tags
  • show counts
  • toggle spacing
  • albums: show names
  • albums: as slides
  • albums: square thumbnails
  • media: show names
  • media: show filename
  • media: square thumbnails