Bug 426513

Summary: Add "By Manual and Name" and "By Manual and Date" sort options for items in "Main Window Menu Descriptions" section.
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Fred Brigham <frbrigham>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version: 7.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/commit/53b396254ab3942664072840291a84ab818029df Version Fixed In: 8.0.0
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Description Fred Brigham 2020-09-14 07:45:12 UTC 
SUMMARY
The "By Manual and Name" and "By Manual and Date" sort options for items are not mentioned in the digiKam Handbook. These options are not intuitive and need explanation.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Refer to digiKam Handbook
2. Go to chapter 31.1.16 "The View Menu"
3. Under "View > Sort Images" there is no mention of the "By Manual and Name" and "By Manual and Date" options.

OBSERVED RESULT
The information is missing.

EXPECTED RESULT
This information is essential because these options are not intuitive.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Even if the Handbook cannot be updated immediately, an explanation of these options would be appreciated. I have experimented with the options and observed the result but I am unable to understand the behaviour.
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2020-09-14 07:58:12 UTC 
It decides whether the images should be sorted by name or date if the images have not yet been captured by manual sorting. If images were manually sorted extensively, both entries behave identically. So it is only decisive for the manual initial sorting.

Maik
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2020-09-14 07:59:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 238802 ***
Comment 3 Fred Brigham 2020-09-14 09:59:38 UTC 
You refer to manual sorting, Maik, but I haven't found a way of doing this yet! Manual sorting doesn't appear elsewhere in the menu system or in the Handbook, as far as I am aware.

Fred
Comment 4 Maik Qualmann 2020-09-14 11:14:42 UTC 
If you have selected a variant of manual sorting, you can drag and drop an image or images in the thumbnail view to a new position. A popup appears and you can select "Insert Items here".

Maik
Comment 5 Fred Brigham 2020-09-14 11:43:14 UTC 
Thanks, that works fine. The problem was that I was trying to drop the thumbnail I was moving into a space between other thumbnails. This results in a File conflict error message "Files or folders with the same name already exist in the target folder". If I then select "Rename automatically" a copy of the file is produced in addition to the original. I continued experimenting and discovered that the answer is to drop the thumbnail to be moved directly on top of another thumbnail. I then get the popup "Insert items here" and the thumbnail is then moved to the position in front of the target thumbnail.

Fred
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2022-12-28 18:41:48 UTC 
Git commit 53b396254ab3942664072840291a84ab818029df by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 28/12/2022 at 18:39.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.

Add missing sort item menu entries.
FIXED-IN: 8.0.0

M  +15   -1    menu_descriptions/menu_mainwindow.rst

https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/commit/53b396254ab3942664072840291a84ab818029df