Bug 498025

Summary: excluded directory is still not excluded
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Duns <web>
Component: Setup-CollectionsAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.5.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 8.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: a view of my configuration (and at left the directories not excluded)

Description Duns 2024-12-29 16:45:41 UTC
Created attachment 176954 [details]
a view of my configuration (and at left the directories not excluded)

SUMMARY

I set a directory (its absolute path, no symlink) as excluded (ignored) but is is always included

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. go to settings - configure digikam - collections - ignored directories
2. set a directory to ignore
3. that directory will be still included

OBSERVED RESULT

the excluded directory is still included

EXPECTED RESULT

the excluded directorry should not appear in album collections

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: KDE neon 6.2
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-51-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 5,2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Not sure that it0s a bug: I'm wrong in something?
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2024-12-29 16:54:33 UTC
Only directory names are excluded, paths are not supported. This is intentional.

Maik
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2024-12-29 17:19:56 UTC
Git commit f7c3c9823d4785cee047ef6d96bb140d26b5dda6 by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 29/12/2024 at 17:18.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.

Online doc: add note about setup collections and name exclusion.

M  +4    -0    setup_application/collections_settings.rst

https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/f7c3c9823d4785cee047ef6d96bb140d26b5dda6
Comment 4 Duns 2024-12-30 14:50:21 UTC
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #2)
> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.
> html#ignore-directories-from-your-collections
> 
> Maik

ah, ok. Thank you!
I agree that it's a good idea!
Maybe using (also) "paths" as word, would help someone to better understand.