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

[Luca Casone]

To me, an easy way to re-apply the filter to a view would be welcome --
today, I have to manually de-select and select the flag (or maybe change
album back and forth, I didn't check) to do such a refresh.
Technically speaking, I think it would be easier to implement e.g. a
menu-command and a shortcut to trigger it, instead of a sort-of continuous
watch on the view status. But either solution will for sure improve the
digiKam support to culling.

Let's open a feature request and let developers take care of it.

Bye
Luca


On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:13 AM <2895qgvg6v at liamekaens.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation Maik.
>
> Since the current behavior is desirable for some users, another option
> might be to add a setting to allow folks like Luca and I (and presumably
> other folks who use a similar culling workflow) to have items disappear
> when they don't match the filter.  Would that make sense Maik?  Luca would
> that work for you?  If so we can file a feature request.
>
>
> On 2022-10-23 23:49, Luca Casone csnluca-at-gmail.com |digikam-users|
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Maik. So If I understood well, the fact that the the filtered
> view doesn't auto-update itself is the intended behavior, that answers my
> original question. Maybe a compromise could be having a fast method (a
> button, a menu item & shortcut, ...) to re-run the filter and update the
> view (unless it's already implemented and I missed it :-/ ). Guess I should
> post a feature request.
>
> Bye
> Luca
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:23 AM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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