[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 321339] New: Suppress display of albums containing only grouped images

[shaav at shaav.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321339

            Bug ID: 321339
           Summary: Suppress display of albums containing only grouped
                    images
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: digikam
           Version: 3.3.0
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Albums GUI
          Assignee: digikam-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: shaav at shaav.com

An album that contains nothing but grouped images still appears in the Album
tree.
If the picture count is turned on, it reports (accurately) the number of images
in the folder, but when the album is selected, no thumbnails appear
(appropriately since, they have been grouped with pictures elsewhere).  This is
confusing/misleading because the album tree shows an folder with a certain
number of images in it, but when selected is empty. It's also a little annoying
because it clutters up the album tree with useless albums.

In my case, there are hundreds of these folders; after transitioning from
Picasa, I grouped the files in the ".picasaoriginals" folders with their
current versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an album (A1) with a version of an image in it.
2. Group the image in A1 with an image in another album.
3. A1 still appears in the album tree, and (if turned on) shows that it
contains 1 image

Actual Results:  
Select A1 and no images appear

Expected Results:  
"Group" to me, intuitively means that multiple files are to be treated as one
image as far as digiKam is concerned.  Consequently I would expect the album
counts to reflect that, and when the album count is (effectively) zero, to
suppress display of the album. Or at least, I would like to have a toggle for
that behaviour.

I otherwise, quite like the grouping behaviour; it's very useful. It might be
handy to have the option --- in addition to the toggle to collapse/expand
grouped images beside the primary one --- to toggle groups displays entirely
(i.e. be able to turn them off so the secondary images reappear in their actual
albums, and, in turn, the albums reappear in the tree view).

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