Version: 0.7-beta1 (using KDE 3.3.1, SuSE) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.6 Sometimes I am selecting a lot of pictures (not in sequence) to assign tags, apply plugins etc., and put quite a bit of work in this selection. Compared to this amount of work, there is a high risk of losing this selection, by forgetting to hold down Ctrl, by an inadvertent mouse click. I would appreciate a sort of "save selection mode", selectable by a toolbar button and a key combination. In this mode the selection is never lost, you can click around as much as you like, the effect is the same as if Ctrl was pressed. You can even start the image viewer by double click or use the context menu. When you change the album, a dialog box asks if the selection shall really be lost.
Please take a look to the CTRL issue I'm talking about in #94913 and see if it's what you're saying about. About what Renchi commented in my bug report, I know it would be a different behaviour than the default KDE one, but IMO in this case would be really more appropiate, cause as I said it's quite impossibile that someone would choose only one photo to be downloaded...
#94913 is about the camera dialogue, and this is about the main digikam window, but with Renchi's commit replacing qiconview wit Thumbview, there is no technical difference. My wish does not only include a sort of "always-pressed-Ctrl" but also an "awareness" of the program: It shall know that the current selection is valuable and shall not be lost under any circumstances.
Can't it be done just by use of tags?
Bug 127753 is more extensive description of this wish. I don't close it (with advice to use tags instead) we at least can reduce number of entries in BKO :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127753 ***
Fixed with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127753