Bug 467680

Summary:	Add a Collections Dialogue Behavior
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Galen Adams <gadams3rd>
Component:	Setup-Collections	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	7.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/42ee1a416ee12f2f13eea7760c1cb0f06a2b0af8	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	8.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	attachment-1312993-0.html

Description Galen Adams 2023-03-22 08:25:17 UTC

SUMMARY
In digiKam version 5.9 and before, when I did Settings > Configure digiKam > Collections > Add a Collection, the dialogue would remember and open to the last place I had been = very handy = exactly the behavior I need.

My next version was 6.4; in every version since, the dialogue always opens at the very beginning of things, forcing me to have to navigate through the entire folder tree to get to where I was just a few seconds before.
If it is possible, and not too much trouble, it sure would be nice if the version 5.9 and earlier Add a Collection dialogue replaced the current one.

Thanks.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The way I have always used digiKam, I very frequently work in the Add a Collection window, adding new Collections and otherwise manipulating them; the old style Add a Collection dialogue worked a lot better for me.
Thanks.

Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2023-03-22 09:02:48 UTC

I ask out of curiosity, why are they adding so many collections? I don't even use it once a year. I hope not they add each subfolder as a collection.

Maik

Comment 2 Galen Adams 2023-03-22 09:18:38 UTC

Created attachment 157512 [details]
attachment-1312993-0.html

>> (Maik Qualmann)" I ask out of curiosity, why are they adding so many
collections? I don't even
use it once a year. I hope not they add each subfolder as a collection."<<

I hope I can explain --- when images are in the process of having all
metadata added and then being converted and edited, I let digiKam "see"
that entire working folder.
Then, when I have the finished jpegs, I "hide" everything except for the
finished images; thus, when I do a keyword tag search, I am not inundated
with fifteen versions of the same image; if I can find the finished image,
I immediately know where all it's other versions are without having them
clutter up my Tags View.

I hope that makes sense; Thanks so Much.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 4:02 AM Maik Qualmann <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>
wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467680
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> Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> changed:
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> --- Comment #1 from Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> ---
> I ask out of curiosity, why are they adding so many collections? I don't
> even
> use it once a year. I hope not they add each subfolder as a collection.
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> Maik
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> You are receiving this mail because:
> You reported the bug.

Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2023-03-22 21:03:47 UTC

Git commit 42ee1a416ee12f2f13eea7760c1cb0f06a2b0af8 by Maik Qualmann.
Committed on 22/03/2023 at 20:57.
Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'.

remember last added collection path
FIXED-IN: 8.0.0

M  +1    -1    NEWS
M  +1    -1    core/utilities/setup/camera/setupcamera.cpp
M  +20   -0    core/utilities/setup/collections/setupcollections.cpp
M  +3    -1    core/utilities/setup/collections/setupcollectionview.cpp
M  +4    -0    core/utilities/setup/collections/setupcollectionview.h

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/42ee1a416ee12f2f13eea7760c1cb0f06a2b0af8