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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27.12.2016 16:00, Robert Krawitz
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:36:29 +0100, Andreas Schleth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">a) Annotation dialog:
This is one of the best and central features of KPA. I tried a quite few other photo tagging tools and always came back to KPA. Therefore I think, this central feature should be as polished as it can get:
- It should always start up either in full screen or at most in screen size. Right now it always starts up in a size larger than my screen.
- Saving a layout should also save the (relative) sizes of all widgets including the preview image
- window layout should get a dedicated button at the lower left edge to ease accessibility
- In the latest version, sorting the tags by time seems to be a bit off - could this have a connection with saving the index file in a different way now?
- @Martin Füssel: as you are looking at the map interface: how about some method of mapping the places tag to a map feature? Or a point and click map interface to create a new geo location? I have a lot of old scans from slides ...
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This reminds me of another annoyance with the annotation dialog. The
three widgets at the top left are the three that are least useful (and
possibly most dangerous): label, date, and Use Fuzzy Date.
I have a few times inadvertently changed the name of many files
because I accidentally started typing something I intended as a
keyword into the label box. I don't even want to think about what
setting the date implies. And I don't know what Use Fuzzy Date even
means in this context.
These look like artifacts of the very similar search dialog, but
search and annotate are not the same thing.
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<p>Hi Robert,</p>
<p>you might just redesign your window layout and simply put away
this offending window either totally (hit the x) or to an less
dangerous position (grab the local title bar and move the widget
around - it will become either a floating window or dock
somewhere). Options -> configure ... -> save current layout
saves this for future tagging sessions.</p>
<p>Setting the date is just another label in the database.
Remember, KPA does not touch your images. Except if you order it
to do so via one of the KIPI plugins. KPA fills the date from
exif data on loading new images. If the image does not contain
any exif-info, the file date is used. This might not be
appropriate, so you may set it to another date.</p>
<p>There <strike>is</strike> was?!? a KIPI plugin that allows you
to transfer the KPA-date to the image (exif) and vice versa. <br>
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<p>Andreas<br>
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