Thinking about how to optimize image selection

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

I'd say the right thing to do is to have a setting for what should be 
the default mode, no?

Cheers

Jesper.

On 1/25/26 17:15, Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum wrote:
> Ha, it seems Johannes was faster than me :-)
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474317
>
> My patch is obsolete now.
>
> Cheers!! Andreas
>
>
> Am 25.01.26 um 16:42 schrieb Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I diddled a bit with the code of Viewer/ViewerWidget.* (knowing very 
>> little about C++) and found, that the default annotation mode is hard 
>> coded.
>>
>> Well, I can code harder :-)
>>
>> So I came up with the attached patch, that will change the default 
>> mode to "tokenizing".
>> Applying the patch after a git pull should create a sanitized version 
>> of KPA for our personal use.
>>
>> This is integrated into my build script (with the patch file residing 
>> inside the KPA folder):
>>
>> ...
>> git pull
>> # patch tokenizing default
>> patch -p 1 -i tokenizing.patch
>> ...
>>
>> Works for me (TM)
>>
>> Cheers, Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 25.01.26 um 14:23 schrieb Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum:
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> I too have not warmed to this "feature".
>>> Even after 3 years knowing it, I keep forgetting the additional step 
>>> of hitting crtl-t every time I start the viewer.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 25.01.26 um 03:21 schrieb Robert Krawitz via KPhotoAlbum:
>>>> On 12/4/23 16:15, Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum wrote:
>>>>> Am 04.12.23 um 19:58 schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>>>>>> It looks like the annotation mode in the viewer always starts as Locked, and there's no setting to
>>>>>> change it.  Is this by intent?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to be able to set it to token mode by default.  Ideally, I'd like to be able to use either
>>>>>> tokens or tags on any image.
>>>>> Hi Robert,
>>>>>
>>>>> this was introduced recently - see my "bug" report:https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474307 and
>>>>> the follow up in the wish list. Maybe you could support this (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?
>>>>> id=474307).
>>>>>
>>>>> My wife lost half an evening of tagging due to this new feature :-(
>>>> I just lost about half an hour of work (plus a whole bunch more time tracking it down).  I had
>>>> completely forgotten about this; I was using an old fork of kpa that I had never merged up (judging
>>>> by my email a few years ago, largely because of this), or maybe I had changed it.
>>>>
>>>> The whole point of tokens is speed.  Having to do this blows that out of the water.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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