Bug 178532

Summary:	Actions like rotating, resizing etc. should still be available when multiple images selected
Product:	[Applications] gwenview	Reporter:	Klaus Bitto <klausbitto+kdebugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	axel.braun, finex, intruderkw, nate, piotergmoter, yaroslav.sapozhnik, yvan
Priority:	HI	Keywords:	usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Klaus Bitto 2008-12-23 01:04:43 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

This could be a regression of Bug #65467 for KDE4.

How to reproduce:
1. Select one picture in browsing mode. --> Actions like resize, rotate etc. are available on the side bar.
2. Add more pictures to the selection.

Expected:
The above actions are still clickable.

Actual result:
The above actions are disabled.

Comment 1 Aurelien Gateau 2009-01-03 01:03:07 UTC

This feature will probably be provided by the upcoming batch system from kipi.

Implementing it directly in Gwenview is a bit problematic because Gwenview does not save modified images automatically. This behavior is correct when modifying images one at a time, but probably not the best thing to do when rotating a lot of images.

Comment 2 Klaus Bitto 2009-01-03 13:08:51 UTC

From my personal workflow experience, I'd say: Why not?
For rotating a batch of newly imported images currently, I click through them in the normal view mode (not the folder view, but the single picture view), and rotate the ones needed to rotate. 
In the end, I click "save all". 
This works very well, thanks to Gwenview's ingenious information-and-navigation bar for unsaved images in a collection.

Instead of having to click through the images in single-picture-view, I'd much rather like to select them in the folder view, click "rotate [this or that way]" in the sidebar and hit "save all".

Comment 3 Aurelien Gateau 2009-01-08 11:01:36 UTC

The danger of this approach is when someone decide to mass-rotate a thousand of images, leading to memory exhaustion.

Comment 4 FiNeX 2009-01-09 19:19:44 UTC

@Aurelien: isn't possible to use tools like "mogrify" which is able to manage a lot of images?

Comment 5 Aurelien Gateau 2009-01-09 22:18:38 UTC

The problem is not the difficulty to implement mass rotation, it's about providing a non consistent behavior. Implementing it would create this behavior:

- Rotate one image does not save it automatically
- Rotating many images save them automatically

It's safer IMO to do mass rotation with a different tool, like the upcoming KIPI batch support.

Comment 6 intruderkw 2009-09-30 11:51:47 UTC

*** Bug 208835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2017-09-09 13:37:37 UTC

*** Bug 358808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2017-11-09 20:07:45 UTC

*** Bug 371820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***