[KPhotoAlbum] Multi-image annotation dialog annoyance

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 19:52:59 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 23:24:15 +0100, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
>> I've tried with again with a KDE neon vm I had lying around. There
>> is a different bug there that causes the preview image to flicker in
>> size, but not the one you found.
>>
>> On Sonntag, 6. November 2016 21:45:53 CET Reimar Imhof wrote:
>>> I've tried suse rpm from
>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/x86_
>>> 64/kphotoalbum-5.0.1-6.1.x86_64.rpm
>>> 
>>> I've also tried to rebuild the rpm.
>>> And I tried to compile it in kdevelop.
>>> Every binary has that flash problem.
>>
>> I'll try it on opensuse 42.2 and see if I can reproduce it there...
>
> I wonder whether it's a function of particular graphics adapters.  I
> have a Radeon HD5870 aka Juniper/Broadway XT, using the radeon (free)
> driver.

So a bit more information.

It isn't flashing each image in turn; it's flashing just one image.

Also, there are two buttons at the top right of each widget.  The one
on the extreme right is a close button; the other one I can't figure
out, but if I click on it, the flickering stops and it displays
normally.

But I have a few other complaints about the annotation dialog:

1) If I close one of the widgets (or turn it off in the
   Options/Settings dialog), it goes away, but the next time I enter
   the annotation dialog, all of the default widgets come back
   (i. e. I can't get rid of them permanently).  I don't use the GPS
   in my camera, so the map widget's useless to me (and indeed, takes
   up a lot of space to display "None of the selected images contain
   geographic coordinates).

2) In the image preview window, there's a button "Train face
   recognition database automatically".  It's grayed out, so I can't
   turn it off.  I don't care about face recognition, so I don't want
   it at all.

   Also, to the right of the next/previous buttons below the image,
   there are 5 other buttons (rotate left, right, etc) which are
   grayed out in multi-image mode (the positionable tags and face
   recognition aren't usable at all to me even in single image mode
   since I haven't configured the requisite features in my options).
   Since they're completely useless in multi-image mode, should they
   even be there at all?
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