[Digikam-users] How to use versioning?

[John Stumbles]

On 16/06/12 09:05, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Am 16.06.2012 00:07, schrieb Andrew Goodbody:
>> I have not tried versioning or grouping myself yet but I have found out
>> from this list that 'Save as new version' is badly labelled and does not
>> do what you seem to think it does. If you have versioning enabled then
>> just choose 'Save'. This will update the image with a new entry in the
>> image history. When versioning is enabled it is not possible to make a
>> change without it being recorded in the image history. 'Save as new
>> version' creates a new instance of the image that has its own change
>> history which is separate from the original.

Ahh! now I understand!

>> I really do think that 'Save as new version' is a confusing label and it
>> is not intuitive as to its purpose until

> I was one of these who were confused... and understood it only after
> explanations here.
...
> My proposal therefore would be something like *"start new versioning
> tree"* or the like.

Yes that would make more sense to me. As Marcel pointed out not 
everybody will 'get' the metaphor of trees or branches, but at least 
some of use will!

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John Stumbles                                    http://stumbles.org.uk
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