Enhancement request?

[Andreas Schleth]

Hi Johannes,

I think Per has a valid point. In the current UI we have a dire warning
when annotating multiple images in one go - also not really nice.
If "append to" would be the default, we would not need this warning.

2 Checkboxes above the textbox (only when crtl-2 was used) would not be
too intrusive:
[x] append to existing descriptions  [ ] overwrite all selected
descriptions

The append option should append " " + <new text> in case there is some
older text and without the blank when the description is empty.
This would work nicely for the normal case (previous desc. are empty)
and we even would have the option to clear some default texts (overwrite
with empty).

I do not know whether the list accepts image attachments. Thus the
textual description. Otherwise: 1 image = 1000 words (2 images = 1001
words :-)

Cheers Andreas

Am 29.05.23 um 16:37 schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl:
> Hi!
>
> Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2023, 07:17:59 CEST schrieb Per Funke:
>> Hi!
>> If the following doesn't exist:
>> It would be really nice to be able to add text to the "Description" in
>> multiple images without changing existing text. This need arises when you
>> suddenly realize a connection between images.
>>
>> An example: you've annotated  several images when you finally find the
>> coordinates to the place where the images were taken. Sometimes this can be
>> hard to find but after many tries you succeed and now you want to add them
>> to the text. In my case, these are old black and white images scanned, so
>> no exif info exists. (Also you are much too lazy to try to enter this in
>> the exinfo for the scanned image, losing your workflow in KPA. :)
> Well, you can edit the description field for multiple images (via the Annotate
> multiple images dialog), but that will overwrite any existing text for these
> images.
>
> I'm afraid I don't know how this feature could be implemented right now
> without making the user interface worse.
>
> Cheers,
>    Johannes
>
>
>
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