[digiKam-users] strange naming behavior when moving albums + album tree not moving

[Maik Qualmann]

This problem has been fixed in current digikam versions.

Maik

Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com> schrieb am Do., 14. Jan. 2021, 11:09:

> Good morning,
>
> There are two things a bit annoying when moving a folder:
>
> 1) I have a large album tree. Now when I want to move an album to
> another album that is outside of the current shown part of the tree, I'd
> expect that the tree is moving up or down when I come to it's border,
> but it doesn't. So I cannot move that album within digikam. (*1 see
> below if I haven't explained it clear :-) )
>
> 2) So I open the "mother-album" album in dolphin and drag the
> to-be-moved-album to the new "mother-album" in digikam and say click
> "move" in dolphin.
>
> Now the moved album gets the name of its original mother-album instead
> the name of the moved album and I must rename it. That's strange, isn't it?
>
> Can I change those behaviors somehow r should I file a bug, or two?
>
> This is digikam 6.0.0. on OpenSuse 15.1, KDE.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> *1) more detailed about moving to not-visible folder:
>
> complete tree:
>
> album1 (outside visible tree on screen)
> --------- visible part of the tree:
> album2
> album3
> album4
> ---------
> album5 (outside visible tree on screen)
>
> I want to drag and drop album2 to album1 or album 5. When I drag up or
> down over the end of the visible tree-part I expect that the tree view
> moves so that 1 or 5 come into visible and I can drop the album. But the
> tree stays fix and  cannot reach album 1 or 5. So I can not use
> drag/drop of an album within the album tree of digikam, poided the
> destination album is outside of the visible tree part.
>
> * 2) more detailed about wrong naming of dropped folder:
>
> in dolphin:
>
> mother-album
>     daughter-album
>
> in digikam album tree view:
>
> destination-album
>     dest-sub1
>     dest-sub2
>
> now I grab "daughter-album" in dolphin, move the mouse over
> "destination-album" in digikam, drop it there and chose "move".
>
> now the moved album is called "mother-album" instead of "daughter-album":
>
> destination-album
>     dest-sub1
>     dest-sub2
>     mother-album
>
> (the original "mother-album" stays un-altered and the moved
> "daughter-album" disappears from it's original place, as it should. It
> just gets the wrong name at the destination.)
> --
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