[digiKam-users] Using right-side Filters pane to cull images

[2895qgvg6v at liamekaens.com]

I asked a similar question in 
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2020-August/031169.html but 
never got a definitive answer from the developers about whether it is a 
bug or not (IMHO it is).

In September 2021 I tried to investigate how to change the code so that 
flags (and maybe colors too) work like stars in this regard, but I had a 
difficult time tracking the flow of QT events to figure out how setting 
stars ends up causing photos to disappears from view when they don't 
match the stars filter.  Unfortunately I got busy with other things and 
wasn't able to work on the investigation for a while and there have been 
significant changes to digikam since then including switching to a newer 
version of QT, so I would need to start my investigation from scratch.

On 2022-10-21 06:40, Luca Casone csnluca-at-gmail.com |digikam-users| wrote:
> Hi.
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> I need help to understand the behaviour of the right-side Filters pane.
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> Here it is my use case. I need to cull some images, using flags. So I examine one picture at a time and flag it either rejected, pending or accepted.
> In order to reduce the mess, I open the Filters pane and select the Labels Filters to “None”, so that only unflagged images are shown. However if I flag another picture it stays visible, while I expect that it goes away because of the active filter. Also, I cannot find any way to force the filter to re-run. The only way I have to make the new flagged picture disappear is to turn back to the Filters pane—>Labels Filter and deselect+select the “None” filter.
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> This is quite cumbersome and greatly impacts the Filters pane usage to do culling. Is it the intended behaviour, or am I missing something? There’re alternative ways to cull images the way I described?
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> Thank you. Regards
> Luca
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