[Digikam-devel] [Bug 246869] New: Deleting albums, as described, is either broken or insane

[Kelsey Bjarnason]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246869

           Summary: Deleting albums, as described, is either broken or
                    insane
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.3.0
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Usability
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kbjarnason at gmail.com


Version:           1.3.0 (using KDE 4.4.95) 
OS:                Linux

from help:

"When you delete an Album from digiKam it will be moved into the KDE Trash Can.
As an option you could change this behavior, so that delete really did remove
the Album and all of the photographs in it."

So, according to the first, only the _album_ - ***not*** the pictures in it -
will be moved to trash, right?  Somehow, the documentation here does not fill
me with confidence that this is the case.

If it _is_ the case - if Digikam behaves sanely and leaves the images alone,
simply wiping it's own personal "view" of them, the documentation should be
clear on that.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Delete an album.  Actually, don't.  I won't; I can't trust the app, based on
the documentation, _not_ to delete everything in sight.

Actual Results:  
No idea; I'm too barking scared to try it.

Expected Results:  
Digikam's "view" - database entries, etc - are wiped, but the files are right
where they should be, in their happy little folders, untouched, since I did not
select "delete everything you can possibly find", I selected "delete album".



Instilled confidence that the developers grasp the concept that deleting things
is a bad idea, especially when they completely fail to differentiate between
the actual data files and their app's internal "view" of said data files. 
Delete the view, by all means.  Leave the files alone, unless _asked_
_explicitly_ to delete the _files_.

Unfortunately, there's no category for "Insanely critical, fix this
_yesterday_, not just "causes data loss", but does so catastrophically.

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