[Digikam-users] Select/unselect a bit too small

[Wolfgang Mader]

On Monday 25 November 2013 07:42:53 Nicolas MF wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry to bump in after so much has been said. I only wanted to say that
> I've often had the problem Marie-Noelle describes (that is: performing a
> large selection of separate thumbnails from within a folder with many
> pictures) using Ctrl-clic but, wince I release Ctrl to scroll down,
> sometimes I'd miss the combination and loose my selection.
> 
> This has reminded me of the single thing I miss from my ACDsee days under
> windows: the picture basket. It was (is?) a small panel under the
> thumbnails where I could drag&drop pictures creating thus a list. When I
> was done going through all pictures (which could belong to different
> albums), I applied whatever tag or modification to all at once. The great
> thing about it was that once in the basket, the selection wouldn't get away
> by accident. And I would only move to the basket as many images as I had on
> the screen at a given time, so no fear of losing anything when scrolling.
> 
> I think that would be a great addition to digikam.

I agree. The basked sound great to me. Especially for tagging big junks of 
images, it would be handy if the basket selection could be browsed, e.g. in 
"Perview mode". That way, the consistency of the selection could be checked 
easily.

> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Marie-Noëlle Augendre <
> 
> mnaugendre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2013/11/24 jdd <jdd at dodin.org>
> > 
> >> Le 24/11/2013 20:40, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> >>  The daily division will be completely artificial...
> >> 
> >> yes, but anyway you can't look at 1500 pictures at the same time..
> > 
> > I don't have albums to look at all the pictures at the same time. They are
> > only (one of) the first level of my organisation; it is always possible to
> > refine a search using tags or other information.
> > 
> >> but this begin to be out of scope, sorry
> > 
> > No problem. It can be interesting to share experiences.
> > But as a former organizer, I'm rather keen on structuring data in relation
> > to the ways I will need to retrieve it; you own needs could be different
> > and/or you could prefer other solutions.
> > 
> > Marie-Noëlle
> > 
> > 
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