Bug 173899

Summary:	digikam: Timeline does not show any photos
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Mark Purcell <msp>
Component:	Searches-TimeLine	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	marcel.wiesweg, raphink
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	1.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	ksnapshot of issue

Description Mark Purcell 2008-10-30 14:00:22 UTC

Version:           0.9.4 (using 3.5.10, Debian Package 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1 (lenny/sid))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.26-1-686

I confirm I am seeing this behavior with digikam 0.9.4.

In fact is there an option, or a way to make the photo's appear?

I shall attach a ksnapshot.

Mark


----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Bug#487671: digikam: Timeline does not show any photos
Date: Tuesday 24 June 2008
From: Arnout Boelens <aboelens@engin.umass.edu>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Package: digikam
Version: 2:0.9.4~rc1-1
Severity: normal

When clicking on the Timeline tab, no photos are shown at all. I would expect
that when I click on one of the bars in the graph, the accompanying photos are
shown.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (650, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages digikam depends on:
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins  4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2a          4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-4    core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6                2.7-12              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1              1:4.3.1-2           GCC support library
ii  libgphoto2-2         2.4.0-9             gphoto2 digital camera library
ii  libgphoto2-port0     2.4.0-9             gphoto2 digital camera port librar
ii  libjasper1           1.900.1-5           The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62            6b-14               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkdcraw3           0.1.4-2             Raw picture decoding C++ library (
ii  libkexiv2-3          0.1.7-1             Qt like interface for the libexiv2
ii  libkipi0             0.1.6-1             library for apps that want to use 
ii  liblcms1             1.16-10             Color management library
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.27-1            PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt            3:3.3.8b-5          Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6           4.3.1-2             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4             3.8.2-10            Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6             2:1.1.4-2           X11 client-side library

Versions of packages digikam recommends:
pn  kdeprint            <none>               (no description available)
ii  kipi-plugins        0.1.5-1              image manipulation/handling plugin
ii  konqueror           4:4.0.82+svn819867-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, web

-- no debconf information





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Comment 1 Mark Purcell 2008-10-30 14:04:01 UTC

Created attachment 28233 [details]
ksnapshot of issue

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2008-10-30 14:06:35 UTC

It's not reproductible here. 

Start digiKam from a console and post all messages in this file.

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2008-10-30 14:11:04 UTC

Ok, 

Use the bottom of time line cursor to perform a date range selection.

You can find more info in my blog : http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/293

Gilles Caulier

Comment 4 Andi Clemens 2008-10-30 14:22:21 UTC

Just discovered a problem with the timeline view in 0.9.5:

Select a time range, it will display images. Now change the time range, nothing will happen. You have to either switch to another tab (album / tags) and come back or you need to clear the selection with the button and re-select the range.
I think there is a signal missing.

Andi

Comment 5 Mark Purcell 2008-10-30 14:41:57 UTC

Gilles,

Thank you for #3, yes it is indeed a usability issue, I have been clicking on the top/middle rectangles and I suspect Arnout has been doing the same.

Perhaps the boxes on the bottom could be made into check boxes, or something intuitive to click otherwise others will have similar issues. Or by default once check box is selected at the start, so some pictures are presented.

Also perhaps the section from your blog could be included in the user manual.

Comment 6 Raphaël Pinson 2009-01-20 19:37:17 UTC

Same issue here. I've tried to click on the bars for quite some time until I began to search for a bug report and found this. I believe most users will click on the columns rather than the letters under them.

Comment 7 Raphaël Pinson 2009-01-20 19:50:58 UTC

Especially since clicking on the column does select it, even though it doesn't actually show any pictures in the results area.

Comment 8 caulier.gilles 2009-06-20 14:10:45 UTC

SVN commit 984196 by cgilles:

TimeLine widget : draw flicker rectangle around time selection date below X axis. Now, with flicker effect, this bring users 
to see where they can take date selection.
Note : Only bottom of vertical band is used to perform selection. the rest of band, upper X axis can be move to naviguate
on time line without to take selection. Why ? To see and check date an number of items from histogram displayed on the top. 
Kphotoalbum use also this behavour with timeline.
BUGS: 182852
BUGS: 173899


 M  +49 -1     timelinewidget.cpp  
 M  +5 -1      timelinewidget.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=984196