[Digikam-devel] [Bug 192430] New: Tags disabled even though images are selected

[DGardner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192430

           Summary: Tags disabled even though images are selected
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.10.0
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: dkde at gardnersworld.org


Version:           0.10.0 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I rely almost exclusively on tagging to organise images. (My album
folders are just organised by year and month.) My typical workflow
is to import a load of new images, select the relevant month folder,
view my tag hierarchy in the right-hand panel and start selecting
and tagging images in large chunks.

For example, I may have taken 100 images at a particular location,
so I select all of those images and assign my "Places/<Country>/<City>"
tag. Then I might have an "Event/Wedding/John & Jane" tag that I want
to apply to most of those images. This is where I notice a problem at
times.

In digiKam 0.9.x, I used to have problem if I changed the selection
while the previous tag was (slowly) being applied to lots of images.
It used to assign the old tag to the newly selected images, etc.
This seems to be fixed in 0.10.0, or at least I haven't noticed it
yet. Thanks.

In digiKam 0.10.0 (and less often in 0.9.x), I have a different
problem: when I change the selected images, the tag hierarchy on the
right is sometimes disabled (greyed out and not responding to clicks).
I often need to deselect and re-select one of the images to enable
the tag hierarchy again. Yesterday, this happened on every second or
third change of the selection. I haven't yet noticed any clear pattern
and cannot reproduce it at will.

I remember some bug or blog posting from Gilles where he mentioned
that there is a distinction between the current image and the selected
images (the thumbnail for the current image has the dotted outline,
those for the the selected images have a blue background). Maybe it
was bug #141940.

I wonder if this distinction is related to my problem. Maybe what
happens is that there are selected images but no current image, so
the tag hierarchy is disabled and I cannot apply tags to the selected
image.

This whole current/selected image thing is very confusing. There is
nothing about it in the user manual and I cannot understand how it
can be useful. Bug #141940 mentions that it is consistent with the
icon view in Konqueror, but that doesn't really help.

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