Export doesn't recurse into sub-directories - should it?

[Gilles Caulier]

2017-01-07 13:56 GMT+01:00 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>:

> On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 01:40:32PM +0100, Simon Frei wrote:
> > On 07/01/17 13:32, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > >> I'm trying to use digikam's export facility.  I thought it was just
> > >> what I needed until I discovered that it doesn't seem to recurse into
> > >> subdirectories.  Is this right or is it a bug?
> > >>
> > > Any comments about this anyone?
> > >
> Thanks for replying.
>
> > The export facilities are kipi plugins and they are only aware of the
> > current selection of items. So even though there is an export entry in
> > the context menu of the album-/tag-tree in the left sidebar, the export
> > plugin only knows about the selected items in the main view. This is
> > somewhat counter-intuitive.
>
> > So what you need to do if you want to recursively export all pictures is
> > to select the base album/tag and in the view menu check the option
> > include album/tag subtree. Then select all items in the main view
> > (ctrl-a) and finally select the export tool of your choice.
> >
> I can get as far as showing all the images (from multiple directories)
> as thumbnails and selecting them all.  However Export to HTML doesn't
> seem to pick up the selected images.  Other export options seem to do
> so.
>
> A further problem is that I want the exported images to retain the
> directory hierarchy of the originals.
>
>
> It would seem that Export to HTML doesn't use the same selection
> mechanism as the other export options.
>

I responded here :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374686

Qt4 HTML export tool was not ported to Qt5 and we need an HTML5 compliant
tool instead now.

Gilles Caulier
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