Selecting grouped pictures change of behaviour (Was "Inconsistent watermark sizes depending on pictures ratio")

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

OK. Thanks a lot, Simon.

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-02 15:22 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com>:

> Hi Marie-Noëlle,
>
> The current behaviour is to do any operation on all group members when in
> grouped mode. I can only assure you again, that I will address this problem
> and I apologize for the inconvenience in the mean time.
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 02/02/17 13:06, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> One more thing: I just saw that whole groups are also used to load the
> lighttable. I can't see any any point in comparing different formats and/or
> sizes pictures!
> Apart from browsing albums, I definitely don't see any more usage for the
> grouping feature with this current behaviour; it seems that I need to
> display the pictures as ungrouped selections for everything.
>
> Marie-Noëlle
>
>
> 2017-01-22 20:18 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I am aware it is. a big change in behaviour and for your use case, it
>> definitely doesn't make sense. This change has been requested by users, but
>> I agree, it has gone too far by making this the only behaviour. This should
>> either be made configurable somehow.
>> I introduces these changes so I am happy to think of and implement a
>> solution, but I have exams coming up. So I will only be able to do this
>> after mid February. Your options are to live with it or switch back to
>> 5.3.0 for the time being (or hope someone else will pick it up). I am sorry
>> I can't provide any more timely assistance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On 22/01/17 19:02, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>>
>> The big problem is this is a full change of behaviour.
>> For years, I have adopted a workflow that worked with 'past' Digikam, and
>> now it won't work anymore!
>>
>> All my pictures are grouped 'under' the TIFF format, that qualifies as
>> the 'mother' picture: the original raw, the JPEGs that have been created
>> from the TIFF (itself created in Darktable) and possibly other TIFF
>> versions in case I made several different developments.
>> Each time I needed to produce a JPEG, usually for online publication, a
>> new photobook, or storing on mobile devices, I only had to select the
>> TIFFs, and run whatever workflow I wanted to use in the BQM.
>>
>> Selecting whole groups might be fine for managing metadata, but I can't
>> see any relevancy when it comes to resizing, converting to JPEG(!),
>> watermarking, exporting and such.
>>
>> Please provide some kind of option, especially when using the batch queue
>> manager, so we can have choice between selecting only the top picture, or
>> the whole group.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Marie-Noëlle
>>
>>
>>
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