[KPhotoAlbum] Token setting in thumbnail view

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 06:24:47 +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:30:48 -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:28:07 +0200, Johannes Zarl wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I just had another look at the patch. Is it intentional that expanded
>> stacks behave like unstacked images? I.e. when there is an expanded stack
>> consisting of two images, uppercase letters only affect the selected image,
>> not the whole stack.
>> >>
>> >> My feeling is that uppercase letters should always affect the whole
>> stack. How about you?
>> >
>> > Yes.  I thought that that was what I was doing, but I'm not familiar
>> > with the innards of the stacking.
>>
>> Actually, now that I think about it, the behavior I coded is indeed what
>> I intended.  Whether it's the best behavior is open to debate (I can see
>> both sides), but my thought process was that if the stack is expanded
>> and you've selected only some of the stack members, then you've made a
>> deliberate choice to exclude the others.
>>
>> On the flip side, if you've specified that you want all members of the
>> stack, presumably that's what you mean.  That case seems ambiguous to
>> me.  I don't feel all that strongly about it; if others agree that
>> IncludeAllStacks is the right behavior, I'll be happy to change it.
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> How does this work when only a single image from a stack is in the
> selection? E.g. I have raws and jpegs stacked automatically. Now I might
> search for only raw images and tag the whole stack when only the raws are
> actually within the selection list.
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> My intiution for tagging the whole stack would not care about whether the
> stack is expanded or not if we intend the capital letter to be for whole
> stack. One can always use the lower case letter to tag few images from
> expanded stack.

If that's considered "expanding the stack", then I think what I
originally coded is absolutely the right thing.
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