[KPhotoAlbum] A few stacking issues

[Robert Krawitz]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:39:11 +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2013 01:42:58 Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:38:22 +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote:
>> > On Friday 25 January 2013 01:11:32 Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> > Well, it doesn't make the behaviour more useful for you, but it also
>> > means that the real bug lies with the autostacking-problems you
>> > mentioned. If autostacking worked properly for you, you wouldn't need
>> > the workaround. I just don't want to dig into this problem, if I'll
>> > realize later that the problem lies somewhere else ;-)
>> 
>> That's not so.  Sometimes I may want the JPEG and sometimes I may want
>> the RAW, depending upon what I'm doing.
>
> I didn't want to imply that your "ideal workflow" is unreasonable. But the current "intended behaviour" is for the export to use the top-image of each stack. If KPA is not doing that, than that would be a bug.
>
> If you want KPA to do things differently (e.g. ask the user for each stack which image to select), then that is a feature request, and honors a discussion asking questions like "how does it affect other users with different workflows?" or "is somebody willing to implement it?".

Agreed; that's why I'm raising the issue.

>> (Also, if the purpose is to be able to populate a foreign database, it
>> really should be exporting *all* files in the stack.)
>
> This was a deliberate design choice (there was a discussion on this list a while back, but I don't remember the exact date).
>
> The idea behind this behaviour is the following:
> a) If someone wants to export/run a kipi-plugin on only the "top images" (i.e. the unstacked images + the top images of the stacks), one can do so by just selecting the unexpanded stacks.
> b) If someone wants to export/run a kipi-plugin on all images, then one can do so by first selecting "expand all stacks".
>
> If the export automatically expanded the stacks, use-case a) would break.

OK -- but is the stacking information then lost when everything is
re-imported?
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