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

[Maik Qualmann]

In theory, the item should disappear when the filter no longer matches. But 
I've left it that way so far, because it also has advantages for many users, 
depending on the workflow. An example is filtering for a pick label, as soon as 
you change it it would disappear. But you still wanted to add a captions or 
change the rating. You would have to search the article again to make further 
changes.

Maik

Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2022, 07:48:51 CEST schrieb Luca Casone:
> 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