[Digikam-devel] [Bug 263332] New: "Tag Filters", "Captions/Tags" right-click options impair usability

[Elle Stone]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263332

           Summary: "Tag Filters", "Captions/Tags" right-click options
                    impair usability
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.7.0
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Tags
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: l.elle.stone at gmail.com


Version:           1.7.0 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

On the right-panel, on "Caption/Tags" and on "Tag Filters", two of the
"right-click for menu" tag options are causing me a certain amount of grief as
I try to tag several years worth of photographs. Those options are: "Export"
and "Batch Process". 

Whenever I am trying to add tags using "Captions/Tags", if I have selected one
or more images, if I open the right-click dialog to add a new tag, and if I
roll over the "Batch Process" right-click option and don't move the mouse
quickly enough, my selected images are deselected. 

Whenever I am trying to select and deselect tags on the "Tag Filters"
right-panel, when I open the right-click dialog, if I roll over the "Export"
option and don't move the mouse quickly enough, all my selected images are
deselected. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open digikam, open either of the tag-related right panels, select one or more
images. Have the mouse hesitate over the "Batch Process" option
("Captions/Tags") or the "Export" option ("Tag Filters"). The selected image
will deselect.

Actual Results:  
The selected image(s) will deselect.

Expected Results:  
The selected images should not deselect.

Both of these problem right-click options are also available from the top menu.
"Export" is available as "Export", and the four "Batch Process" options  are
available from the top menu "Tools". Is there a "useability reason" why they
also need to be on the "Caption/Tags" and on "Tag Filters" right-click menus? 

Personally, I can't imagine how or why one would be in the middle of setting up
tag filters and suddenly decide to export images, or why one would be in the
middle of tagging images and suddenly decide to start batch-processing the
selected images, such that the batch-process option needs to be right there
next to the tagging options. 

Does anyone actually use these right-click menu options from the right-side
"Caption/Tags" and "Tag Filters"? If this is a setup that people actually use
and want, could the mouse-over time before activation be increased? I'm not as
young and fast and coordinated as I used to be and so it is a bit bothersome to
see my carefully selected images deselect before I get a chance to actually put
tags on them.

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