[digiKam-users] Wastebin - how to empty?

[Thomas]

I second this. I also had a hard time figuring out how to empty the 
trash bin.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the buttons wordings are 
ambiguous. For example, when I mark everything and click Delete..., I 
get this:

Also, there is both an Undo button and a Restore button. I have still 
not figured out what the difference is.

It is also ambiguous if the buttons at the bottom of the Trash are 
actions related to what ever item/items are selected or to the Trash bin 
as a while?


Selected Items Permanently or All Items Permanently. I already selected 
all items. This is confusing.

A low effort quick improvement would be to change the text on All Items 
Permanently to "Empty Trash".

Better yet, have a separate button for "Empty Trash" because this saves 
the amount of clicks. And emptying trash is likely the most common 
operation being done in there.


However, I think a proper fix is the following:

1: Provide a right click context menu on the Trash icon in the Tree view 
that is "Empty trash". This aligns with how applications typically 
implement this on all major platforms including Linux, MacOS and Windows.

2: Provide a right click context menu on selected items in the Trash bin 
that provides the following actions: "Delete permanently" (should also 
happen if user presses Delete button on keyboard) , "Restore item", 
"Open item" (previews the image - this should also happen if user 
doubleclicks or presses Enter).


BR

Thomas


On 2023-01-15 00:49, 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?

-- 
Mvh
Thomas
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