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

[Remco Viëtor]

On lundi 24 octobre 2022 07:48:51 CEST Luca Casone wrote:
> 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
Sorry, but I do not see that behaviour. If I go to the filter pane and select 
the filter "None" for the pick labels, images I then flag in the main pane do 
disappear from the selection. That is with digikam 7.7.0. under OpenSUse Leap 
15.4. 

However, the filter pane has two "none" options: one for pick labels, one for 
colour labels ("black flag" and "orange thingy", resp.). Did you pick the 
right one to filter on?

Remco