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

[Andreas Schleth]

Hi Johannes,

im onto it - the bug report :-)

Andreas

Am 28.12.25 um 22:52 schrieb 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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