[Digikam-users] Selecting photos issue

[Stuart T Rogers]

On 23/03/14 21:20, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>
>
> On 23/03/14 19:25, Remco Viëtor wrote:
>> 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
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>
> Thanks for that advice, I'll take a look at it ....
>
> Stuart

It seems that at present you cannot change the shortcut assignment for 
assigning the pick labels, at least it is not listed in the Customising 
Shortcuts - is this correct and if so why?

Stuart

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