Thinking about how to optimize image selection

[Andreas Schleth]

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My patch is obsolete now.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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