Annotation dialog garbled: has the location or format of "layout.dat" changed recently?

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi,


Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2025, 21:53:36 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb 
Tobias Leupold:
> E-Mail von Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum vom Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2025,
> 
> 21:26:
> > Hi Tobias,
> > 
> > thanks for the info - yes, I missed some release notes.
> > However, this is bad news (for me). The new method saves one layout for
> > all different databases. Which does not work for me.
> 
> IIRC, we officially support using multiple databases meanwhile (do we?!)
> So what you do seems to be a legitimate use-case we should support, as
> having different categories in different databases may make different
> layouts necessary.

Yes, we did accept some patches to improve the multi-database scenario (after 
this particular change). From my point of view it makes sense to try to not 
break your use-case.

> Maybe, we could extend the window titles with the database base dir, so the
> dataset read would be automatically matched with the database in use, which
> also would allow multiple instances to run at once without collisions?
> 
> Just brainstorming ...

Regarding a possible fix: it would be great to continue this as a bug report so 
that there is a publicly available description of the problem that we can link 
to in the changelog...

Cheers,
  Johannes
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