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

[Tobias Leupold]

E-Mail von Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum vom Montag, 29. Dezember 2025, 
00:23:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> im onto it - the bug report :-)

Commit 3ab7e118de1b888e7c831e4129abfc0673eed956 should already do the trick.
The Annotation Dialog's window state is now written to a db-specific group 
("AnnotationDialog [the db's path]") and read from there, depending on which 
db is open. Using the whole path saves us from collisions like one db being on 
/old_stuff/photos and the other one on /new_stuff/photos.

If no state is found in such a db-specific group, the non-db-specific state is 
copied there and used (if it's not empty). The state is not removed so that it 
also can be copied to other db-specific groups.

This should allow multiple Annotation Dialog layouts and also multiple KPA 
instances showing different databases concurrently.

Andreas, would you be so kind to test the state_per_db branch and check if it 
works for your setup? It currently only contains this one commit.

Cheers, Tobias

PS: Yay, I finally could contribute something again :-D

> Andreas
> 
> Am 28.12.25 um 22:52 schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl:
>