[Digikam-users] Selecting photos issue

[Stuart T Rogers]

On 23/03/14 22:09, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2014-03-23 22:59 GMT+01:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>
> Problem fixed in next 4.0.0 release :
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/13365731864/
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> Gilles Caulier
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Actually now I've done some work with this it will be quite a good way 
of marking my photos for printing since the flag will stay put it can 
easily been seen which photos have been printed. So perhaps what I 
requested would not really be needed after all. Having the fix for the 
keyboard shortcut change in the next 4.0.0 release is excellent.

Stuart
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