"next image" in editor does not change selection in album view anymore

Maik Qualmann metzpinguin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 20:01:45 GMT 2018


Problem is now fixed for digiKam-5.9.0.

https://commits.kde.org/digikam/47eb880ff8a33e4062af747089b471d5b202c664

Maik

Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 20:35:38 CET schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> Oooo - it only works in one session :-( After restart of digikam the
> problem is back.
> 
> I tried two times and I can reproduce:
> 
> - digikam settings "view" set to "open editor" - selected image in album
> does not change when going to next in editor
> - change settings to "show preview"
> 
> important:
> - click on an image in preview and select from the menu "edit"
> (Bildbearbeitung")
> try to go to next/previous image with pg-up/dwn
> 
> - change setting back to "open editor" - now selected image in album
> changes when going to next in editor
> 
> - close digikam, start it again, the problem is back...
> 
> To reproduce here it is important to do the two steps under "important".
> When, after changing to "show preview", I did /not/ click on an image
> and opened the editor via menu before changing back to "open editor",
> there is no effect (problem stays). But when I do it the problem goes
> away for the session, until I close digikam.
> 
> Sorry for complicated description, but I hope it helps :-)
> 
> Am 16.02.2018 um 20:21 schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> > Ha! After Gilles mail I tested with some small directories (8 and 9
> > images), also with very small images, and after actualizing the album
> > (f5). Same result.
> > 
> > After your mail I went to settings and in "views" (Ansichten) selected
> > "show preview" just to see what happens. I restarted digikam, but when I
> > clicked on "editor" (Bildbearbeitung) I could not move to previous/next
> > image... So I changed back to "open editor" in settings.
> > 
> > And guess what: now when going to next image one or several times, *it
> > works*. So, something happened when changing the settings...
> > 
> > It also works in huge directories (590 images) and with large size png's
> > (20 MB).
> > 
> > Well, strange, but it works now :-)
> > 
> > Am 16.02.2018 um 20:02 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
> >> Ok, I found the cause. You have setup the Image Editor on click of the
> >> image.
> >> When opened via the right context menu, it works. I will fix it.
> >> 
> >> Maik
> >> 
> >> Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 19:27:30 CET schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> >>> I don't know why my digikam doesn't want to change the selected image. I
> >>> just tried again, with different albums, with JPG and png images... the
> >>> first image stays selected...
> >>> 
> >>> I also started from console but don't see any errors...
> >>> 
> >>> Am 16.02.2018 um 18:48 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
> >>>> I have the same openSUSE on my laptop at work and the same digiKam
> >>>> version.
> >>>> There are no problems when changing to the next the image In the Image
> >>>> Editor. The selected image changes in the album view. also. I have no
> >>>> idea why it should not work for you.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Maik
> >>>> 
> >>>> Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 14:03:18 CET schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> >>>>> I just updated to digikam 5.8.0-186.3 on opensuse leap 42.3 and the
> >>>>> mentioned problem still is here. Some day it will go away :-)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Am 16.02.2018 um 13:47 schrieb Andrey Goreev:
> >>>>>> Digikam in openSUSE repos has been 5.8.0 for a while now. I can't
> >>>>>> reproduce it either
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> -------- Original message --------
> >>>>>> From: Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com>
> >>>>>> Date: 2018-02-16 5:43 AM (GMT-07:00)
> >>>>>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: "next image" in editor does not change selection in
> >>>>>> album
> >>>>>> view anymore
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I know you'd love me to use appimage, but for some reasons (maybe
> >>>>>> strange to you :-) )  I like to stay with the opensuse rpm's.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> But as the problem is known it's just a matter of time until it gets
> >>>>>> through to the opensuse rpm's and meanwhile I will live with it...
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Thanks for the fast answering, and while here I use the occasion to
> >>>>>> again say that digikam is fantastic software, better than anything
> >>>>>> similar on win, mac or linux. Thanks for your efforts!
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Daniel
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Am 16.02.2018 um 12:18 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
> >>>>>>    > I had fixed this problem in digiKam-5.8.0. I can not
> >>>>>> reproduce it
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> here either.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>    > Is it possible that you are using an older 5.8.0 test AppImage?
> >>>>>>    >
> >>>>>>    > Maik
> >>>>>>    >
> >>>>>>    > Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 11:13:05 CET schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> >>>>>>    >> Hello,
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> I don't know if this is a bug or a new feature in 5.8.0:
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> When I click on an image in an album it opens editor
> >>>>>> (because I set
> >>>>>>    >> it
> >>>>>>    >> so). When I now in editor go to the next image ("next
> >>>>>> button" or
> >>>>>>    >> page-down) once or several times and then close the editor,
> >>>>>> in the
> >>>>>>    >> album
> >>>>>>    >> still the image is selected which I had selected when starting.
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> In earlier versions, when I went to other pictures in editor
> >>>>>> and
> >>>>>>    >> then
> >>>>>>    >> came back to the album, the last image shown in editor was
> >>>>>> selected
> >>>>>>    >> in
> >>>>>>    >> the album.
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> This was very useful for me because I could continue in
> >>>>>> album from
> >>>>>>    >> where
> >>>>>>    >> I was last in editor without remembering the file name and
> >>>>>> scroll
> >>>>>>    >> down
> >>>>>>    >> in the album...
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> Maybe others think different and this behavior was added as a
> >>>>>>    >> feature?
> >>>>>>    >> Or is it a bug I should report on the bugs list?
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> kind regards
> >>>>>>    >>
> >>>>>>    >> Daniel







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