[KPhotoAlbum] Multi-image annotation dialog annoyance

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi Robert,


On Sonntag, 20. November 2016 14:30:09 CET Robert Krawitz wrote:
> 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.

Ok, that makes a difference - that is a known (albeit nasty) bug introduced 
during porting to Qt5. We had thought we had fixed it, but apparently it can 
still be triggered sometimes.
I'll take another look at this regression. In contrast to the multi-image 
flickering I have some idea where this problem comes from...


> 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

You need to save the window layout to make it permanent. In the annotation 
dialog, select "Options…|Configure window layout…|Save current window setup".



> 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.

You should not get that button if you compile without libkface. If you really 
don't want it, I think it's best to remove libkf5kface-dev (on debian-style 
systems; probably libkface-devel on rpm distros).


>    (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).

To use positionable tags, you need to mark one or more categories as 
positionable in the categories tab in the settings dialog. Btw. you can use 
positionable tags even if you don't have face detection/recognition.


>    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
>    Since they're completely useless in multi-image mode, should they
>    even be there at all?

Short answer: yes.

While it would be technically possible to remove these buttons in multi-image 
and search mode, the annotation dialog is already kind of messy and that would 
definitely make matters worse. Besides, we have had this situation basically 
forever, even more so if you take a look at the search dialog.

Cheers,
  Johannes