Usability issues while deleting duplicates

[Dan Dascalescu]

Remco, thank you for the suggestion. I did adopt it as a workaround until a
variation of the more direct flow I proposed on Bugzilla is implemented.

As for the freezing, it only happened when I first clicked on the labels,
perhaps as digiKam was massively writing to the DB. Hasn't happened since.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> On mercredi 25 janvier 2017 21:12:24 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Once you have marked all to be deleted with a red flag, filter on those
> > > and
> >
> > delete the selected images. Advantages: you can interrupt a session and
> >
> > > continue at a later time, without losing the selections made, you can
> > > defer
> > > the deletion to a time where it suits you (e.g.just before a coffee
> break)
> >
> > Major disadvantage: digiKam freezes after clicking on the label.
> >
> > As for the advantages, I'm not going to dwell over whether I want to
> delete
> > a bunch of dupes or not. If I decide to delete an image, I want to make
> it
> > so, not defer that for later. Being interrupted is not a problem, if
> > digiKam behaved as I described: I'd just come back and keep deleting
> images
> > as I see them.
> >
> > Alt+3 is a workaround, but really, I see no good reason for digiKam to
> > reset everything after deleting a file, so I've filed
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375573
>
> I was just suggesting another way to do it that's available right now. Up
> to
> you to decide whether it fits with your way of working or not.
>
> The 'Digikam freezes after clicking on the label' is new to me (I use the
> system I describe to sort and clean new series of shots and never saw any
> freezing).
>
> But I get the impression that any suggestion of a work-around only annoys
> you.
> Sorry for that, won't happen again.
>
> Remco
>
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