[digiKam-users] Wastebin - how to empty?

[Liam Gretton]

I use a large 4k screen and didn't notice there were any buttons at the 
bottom of the Wastebin view at all, they're tiny (albeit very wide). I'd 
also tried right-clicking on the Wastebin, on the images, looking in the 
configuration for any relevant options as well as searching the docs of 
course.

Gilles has added some more information to the documentation about this 
which I'm grateful for. It could do with the terminology being 
consistent, it's called 'Wastebin' in the application but 'Trash-bin' 
elsewhere and searching for Wastebin in the docs returns nothing.

Anyway not a big deal, as usual the response has been excellent, I know 
the solution now and the docs have had an update.

On 2023-01-14 23:49, Michael Hamilton wrote:
> I would confess to struggling to find it at first.  I thought it would be on a right
> mouse action on the trash-can, like on Dolphin and other applications.
>
> Having opened the trash, the rather dark and small Delete... button, way over
> on the bottom right is easy to overlook (at first).  Once learnt, it's OK.
>
> I don't use digikam every day, and I don't empty it'd trash that often, so I do
> often forget how to.  Eventually I remember it's somewhere inside the trash
> can.
>
> Having written a few GUI's, I would agree that it's sometimes difficult to
> imagine the user's perspective ;-)
>
> Michael
>
> On Sunday 15 January 2023, Maik Qualmann wrote:
>> The documentation is currently being revised by Gilles. Sorry, I can't imagine
>> that you can't find the button at the bottom to delete the images in the trash
>> view.
>>
>> Maik
>>
>> Am Samstag, 14. Januar 2023, 22:29:06 CET schrieb Liam Gretton:
>>> I have hundreds of photos in the 'wastebin'. How do I properly delete
>>> them? I've checked the documentation but there is no mention of the
>>> wastebin at all.
>>>
>>> If photos in the wastebin require a manual deletion outside of dK,
>>> that's fine, but I've no idea where to find it. I'm on Windows 10,
>>> currently using dK 7.8.0.
>>>
>>> Also regarding documentation, in 7.8.0 at least, the link to it from the
>>> 'Online Handbook' item in the applications Help menu doesn't work - it
>>> takes me to a a KDE Documentation site where there's no information
>>> about dK. I suppose this is a consequence of the documentation having
>>> been recreated recently?
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