[Digikam-devel] [Bug 158533] Be able to see not only "image2 files but any that are there in an album

[krienke at uni-koblenz.de]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158533





--- Comment #10 from  <krienke uni-koblenz de>  2011-12-27 07:38:35 ---
I think digikam has all features of a special purpose filemanager: You can
rename files (photos) or folders (albums). You can copy and move both of them
and also delete files and folders. All this are elements of a filemanager.

The second argument is that sidecar files are not of "any" type of file. They
are special files belonging to photos use by different professional grade
software like eg bibble.

Like sidecar files or not, they are reality and digikam should not ignore them
up to a degree where a user can really loose his work by loosing the sidecar
files. At the moment this is very easy in digikam: 

Just create an album with a raw photo file and a sidecar file for this photo.
In digikam you see the raw photo and can now eg move this photo to another
album and then delete the source album which appears to be empty in digikam. 

Upps you just lost all the work you invested on the photo using the software
that stored all these modification you made for the raw photo in the sidecar
file. This also works just the same for a hundred of photos and digikam does
not even issue any kind of warning to the user.This is bad.

If its hard to implement to see and copy move these sidecar files, than another
solution should be in place so that at least a user can not that easily loose
all of his work. 

For example digikam, could move/copy the sidecar files silently with the photos
even without showing their existance. Or at least it should issue a big warning
that when moving a photo for which there is a  sidecar file, that these files
are not moved along with the photo when using digikam. nd when deleting an
album it should not delete it when there are still sidecar files in it.

The best choice in my eyes is still to show these files to the user. No matter
which solution is found I think its really bad if digikam allows the user to
unintendedly delete important files not displaying them and not even letting
the user know they exist but deleting them without any kind of notice.

Rainer

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