[Digikam-users] Selecting photos issue

[Remco Viëtor]

On Sunday 23 March 2014 18:28:18 Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> Having managed to convert my wife to Linux and getting her to use 
> Digikam I just had her yell at me because she lost selection of some 200 
> photos she wanted to export to a memory stick so they could be taken to 
> the print shop.
> 
> What happened was that she selected all the photos she wanted by using 
> the + sign at the top of each thumbnail, then by accident she clicked in 
> a space between photos and the selection was wiped out. OK not a big 
> problem if it is only one or two images but when it was 200 out of 400+ 
> it becomes an issue. It is particularly easy to do this when using a 
> laptop touchpad (which we were).
> 
> Now on the program we used to use on Windows there was an option which 
> could be set on any thumbnail which effectively meant it was 'selected' 
> but which was not reset unless you went to a menu item to 'de-select' 
> all the photos, merely clicking elsewhere would not reset any 
> 'selection' This was extremely useful even for both of us because there 
> was no way to accidentally de-select the images.
> 
> Is it possible to do this in digikam today and if not could some feature 
> like this be added please?
> 
> Stuart
> 

To add this as a feature will require coding, so takes time

In the mean time, you could use a pick label or a colour label, and then 
use the filter tab to see (and easily select) the marked images.

Remco