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

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

I would like to give a response, but I would like to know what the
question is exactly ? Do you want technical details of the source
relevant of filter feature ?

In all cases, the Qt5 to Qt6 does not change the fundamental approach
of the icon view filtering mechanism between the GUI and the Database.

Remember that the base digiKam code is large, with a lot of features
implemented. You need to be precise with the exact feature to
describe. Typically, use screenshots of views from GUI where you want
details.

Another remark is the place where to ask Q. Generally, the complex
response to bugs or dysfonctions is not the mailing list. Large
response needs time to write and the contents of the thread are
generally lost after 2 weeks. It's better to open a thread in gitlab
where developers can follow the thread and review code for future pull
requests. Also all patches are tested with the continuous integration
to limit broken code
inclusion.

Look here :

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/merge_requests

Voilà, remember that developers has also a real life and time to
respond and code is limited (:-)))

Voilà, best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 24 oct. 2022 à 07:49, Luca Casone <csnluca at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Thank you.
> It’s unfortunate that no one replied to you back then. Let me tried here once again, it would be great to hear some feedback from developers.
>
> Luca
>
>
> > On 22 Oct 2022, at 02:42, 2895qgvg6v at liamekaens.com wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> I need help to understand the behaviour of the right-side Filters pane.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Thank you. Regards
> >> Luca
> >>
> >>
> >
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