[Digikam-devel] New icon view

[Andi Clemens]

The old version didn't work, too... just checked it...

Andi

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:47:17 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > I can confirm, seems to be some race-condition.
> > If you switch to another album, no image is actually selected. Look at
> > the edit action in the toolbar for example, it is disabled.
> > When you just rightclick on an item, it becomes selected (edit action in
> > toolbar is active now), but somehow the context menu has already been
> > created. Right-clicking the item again "fixes" the menu.
> > The ContextMenuHelper normally removed disabled actions, to avoid an even
> > bigger contextmenu. This is why some actions are not displayed.
> >
> > The actions are enabled in DigikamApp::slotImageSelected(), but the slot
> > seems to be called slightly after the contextmenu is created.
> >
> > I guess we had this problem also before the ModelView port, but since I
> > always click first on an item, I've never seen it.
>
> There is a timer to compress selection signals in DigikamView, so you are
> quite right, DigikamView::slotDispatchImageSelected is called in the event
> loop after the context menu event has been received.
> If this worked before, there was a good solution; if it never worked, we
> need to think about a new solution. Anyone has an old version, maybe 0.10
> installed to quickly test?