[Digikam-users] Some errors in Batch Queue Manager

[Jan Wolter]

Thank you Gilles for the links. I added my description of the problems I 
noticed to the bug reports.

On 09/02/2014 11:19 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2014-09-01 23:57 GMT+02:00 Jan Wolter <jan.wolter at uni-paderborn.de>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the last two weeks, I played and tested a lot with the Batch Queue Manager:
>> I added different tools, compared their behaviour with the tool in the
>> corresponding single edit mode and I saved different workflows and took a
>> look on the saved queue.xml file under ~/.kde/share/apps/digikam/. I guess
>> that 99% of the tests showed the expected results; but nevertheless, I found
>> 3 errors/problems, which I will describe below.
>>
>> I am using digikam 4.1, which I have compiled from source on my Linux Mint
>> 17.
>>
>> It would be nice, if the following problems could be fixed. Is it necessary
>> to report the problems on the KDE bug tracking system to get the problem
>> solved?
>>
>>
>> CURVES ADJUST:
>> When I add the curves adjust tool to the Batch Queue and create a curve, it
>> will not be saved in the queue.xml file, as you can see here (no values for
>> the different channels are saved):
>> <tool>
>>              <toolname value="CurvesAdjust"/>
>>              <toolgroup value="3"/>
>>              <index value="0"/>
>>              <version value="1"/>
>>              <parameter type="bool" value="true" name="curvesDepth"/>
>>              <parameter type="int" value="0" name="curvesType"/>
>>              <parameter type="QPolygon" value=""
>> name="values[AlphaChannel]"/>
>>              <parameter type="QPolygon" value="" name="values[BlueChannel]"/>
>>              <parameter type="QPolygon" value=""
>> name="values[GreenChannel]"/>
>>              <parameter type="QPolygon" value=""
>> name="values[LuminosityChannel]"/>
>>              <parameter type="QPolygon" value="" name="values[RedChannel]"/>
>>          </tool>
>> The problem becomes visible for the user, when digikam is restarted (and
>> therefore, the workflows get loaded from the queue.xml file): Open Batch
>> Queue Manager and reload the workflow that contains the curves adjust tool.
>> Then your defined curve is lost and the only default curve is shown.
>>
> See this entry :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318726
>
>> B&W CONVERT:
>> Here is a similar problem as in the adjust curves tool: the luminosity curve
>> is not saved in the queue.xml file.
>>
> Same than previous one.
>
>> LENS AUTO-CORRECTION:
>> When the radio button "Use Metadata" is selected, the set of corrections
>> (chromatic aberration, vignetting, color, distortion, and geometry) that
>> could be applied to a picture can be selected via radio buttons as well. But
>> independent of the selected set of corrections, in the queue.xml file they
>> are all marked as true:
>> <tool>
>>              <toolname value="LensAutoFix"/>
>>              <toolgroup value="4"/>
>>              <index value="0"/>
>>              <version value="1"/>
>>              ......
>>              <parameter type="bool" value="true" name="filterCCA"/>
>>              <parameter type="bool" value="true" name="filterCCI"/>
>>              <parameter type="bool" value="true" name="filterDST"/>
>>              <parameter type="bool" value="true" name="filterGEO"/>
>>              <parameter type="bool" value="true" name="filterVIG"/>
>>              ......
>>          </tool>
>> And when I deselect the "Use Metadata" button, the radio buttons to select
>> the corrections are grayed out. I wonder if this is the correct behaviour. I
>> guess that the corrections should be selectable by the user independent of
>> using manual setting or metadata information.
>>
> Same than previous. Also, there is this report :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303848
>
> Gilles Caulier
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