[Digikam-devel] [Bug 116247] Usability/Technical language: don't bother user with database sync issues

[Vardhman Jain]

On 14 Nov 2005 18:56:15 -0000, Dik Takken <d.h.j.takken at phys.uu.nl> wrote:
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> ------- Additional Comments From d.h.j.takken phys uu nl 2005-11-14 19:56
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> > Digikam notices the missing partition. It either displays the images as
> unavailable
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> Hmmm, that's an interesting idea. When images are not available, nothing
> happens. The images that are unavailable can be given a special look ( maybe
> a red border around the thumb? ), and the user can simply delete the images
> from the database in exactly the same way as you can delete an existing
> image. The only difference is that the image itself was already gone.
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> This solution never needs to bother the user on startup, and cleaning up
> the database will be very intuitive: Just delete the images that are marked
> 'unavailable'.
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> Digikam could also offer a special tab that contains the images that could
> not be found on startup.
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> How about this?
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Looks like a good solution. Much better than the anonying dialog in the
beginning. A simple option somewhere to just clean the files not found in
the filesystem from the database(or from view) or just not showing them
would also be nice.

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