Bug 261564

Summary: Add keyboard modifier keys with Tags drag and drop.
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Todd <toddrme2178>
Component: Usability-Drag&DropAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Todd 2010-12-29 21:25:10 UTC
Version:           1.7.0 (using KDE 4.5.90) 
OS:                Linux

When you drag and drop tags on images, you get a menu with one or more options, depending on the situation.  This can include assigning the tag to the selected items, assigning the tag to all items, or assigning the tag to the item you dropped the tag on depending on the situation.

Dolphin, which has a similar drag-and-drop menu, has another feature that is really helpful.  If you hold down a modifier key, such as alt or ctrl, it will bypass the menu and do one of the actions immediately.  I think this would be very helpful for digikam as well, and let people speed up their workflow considerably.  

Here is a proposed set of actions:

ctrl+drop:     assign tag to this item
alt+drop:      assign tag to selected items
ctrl+alt+drop: assign tag to all items

Thes shortcuts would be shown next to their respective entries in the menu.

Of course it would be possible to do an impossible task with this, like using the shortcut for assigning tags to selected items when no item is selected, or assign the tag to this item when you dropped on a blank space.  In these cases I am not sure whether it should fail silently, pop up a notification telling you, or show the menu.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2011-12-16 13:08:22 UTC
Todd,

This file still valid using digiKam 2.x serie ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Todd 2011-12-18 09:56:47 UTC
Yes, it is.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2014-09-02 10:05:24 UTC
Todd,

This file still valid using last digiKam 4.2.0 ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2014-09-12 15:49:10 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 224257 ***
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2023-05-13 13:20:16 UTC
Maik,

The keyboard modifiers do not exists yet with Tags Drag and Drop  ?

Gilles
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2023-05-18 11:57:00 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 403144 ***