Bug 399220

I've played a bit with an active description tab without a selected image. I think we leave it as it is at the moment. You can re-order the tags or call the tag manager, but also activate the checkboxes, change the date, enter a descriptive text without making any sense. Why should the metadata or color tab remain active? They are empty. I tend to WONTFIX.

Maik

Just me chiming in. I think a good idea would be to display information about all elements in the folder or tag when no picture is selected (that's the default behavior in some other picture managers). For instance, showing all the tags present in that album/folder, or all the locations on the map, etc. At least it's more useful than showing nothing at all.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I didn't mean activate the tab *contents*, just the tabs.
I want to be able to e.g. change from "Description" to "Tags" tab without a selected image, to add or delete or reorganize some tabs.

It's a small usability issue, but it kept getting on my nerves.
And in the "Versions" sidebar, this actually works this way.

Of course, this would all be superfluous if my new compact sidebar view was implemented, see #377857 ... :-)

digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published and now available as FlatPak:

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Still valid.

I vote for this feature. Since i replayed with Image Properties tab from right side bar, It will be suitable to show the current album properties when no item is selected.

We have already a stacked view to show the properties of selected items in current album, it can be easily expanded when selection is null.

Gilles

With 8.2.0 the behaviour of the various tabs in the right side bar with no selected image is inconsistent. The Metadata tab allows you to switch between EXIF, Makernote etc; The entire Colours and Captions tabs are greyed-out, the Versions, Filters and Tools tabs are active, etc.

As no selection is made, I'd argue that most tabs should be greyed-out, or better still should simply display text saying something like "select an image to see its information".

The Properties tab could indeed be repurposed to show Album information when no selection is made.

Maik,

I would implement smething following my comment #6, only in image properties view. The rest still disable when no selection is done.

Typically the new behavior of the selection view can be used with only the section of whole current album contents properties, showing the number of item, the size in bytes, and the group of item details.

What do you think ?

Gilles

Not sure if I understand correctly, but if this means the tabs in the "Descriptions" sidebar are changeable (even if their content is disabled) without a selected image (as described in my original bug report), then I'm voting for this.

Not at all. From the right sidebar only the properties tab will be affected. The other tab behaviors still unchanged.

Git commit 377215ed713f46e99bd21233d288f25a13b483f8 by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 09/12/2025 at 14:16.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.

Image Properties Sidebar tab. If no items are selected from the current album, show all statistics about files, including Grouped items.
Related: bug 512555, bug 499108, bug 392936
FIXED-IN: 8.9.0

M  +1    -0    core/app/views/stack/itemiconview.cpp
M  +20   -3    core/libs/properties/itempropertiessidebardb.cpp
M  +6    -0    core/libs/properties/itempropertiessidebardb.h
M  +23   -35   core/libs/properties/itemselectionpropertiestab.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/377215ed713f46e99bd21233d288f25a13b483f8