[KPhotoAlbum] patch for main window paste

[Andreas Neustifter]

Hi All!

On 9 March 2013 21:49, Reimar Imhof <Reimar.Imhof at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
> Am Samstag, 9. März 2013, 21:26:37 schrieb Miika Turkia:
> > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Reimar Imhof <Reimar.Imhof at netcologne.de>
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > here is a patch for the main window paste slot.
> > >
> > > Changes:
> > > - For me file pathes came along as absolute paths including url head
> > > ("file://") -> Now starting "file://" token is removed and file name is
> > > treated as absolute.
> > >
> > > - Try to avoid kphotoalbum crashes if file is not found
> > >
> > > - Set dirty indicator
> >
> > Thanks, this clearly fixes a crash when one pastes something on the
> > main window. However, can you explain what paste in the main window
> > (or elsewhere) actually does?
> >
> > As far as I can tell the pasted URL goes to the search input field and
> > in this case the dirty is not set. So what is the use case when the
> > dirty is set and why?
> >
> > miika
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not the initial author of that copy/paste thing.
> I've just seen it was broken.
> When you have a look at my patch you see tagging-copy-things happen in
> ImageInfo.cpp, line 486, copyExtraData.
> I didn't anlyse what's happening in there but as far as I've seen, it copies
> the tagging info from the origin file (image) to the destination one. And
> because the info about the destination image is changed the dirty flag should
> be set.
> What I have done:
> - select an origin image
> - press ctrl-c
> - select an destination image
> - press ctrl-v
> -> info from origin is copied to destination image.

That change is by me, and yes thats the intended function. I have had
a look at the patch, thanks for fixing this!

Andi