| Summary: | Non-destructive image editor leaves behind hidden items that cannot be revealed | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | Daniel Danner <mf-bugs.kde.org> |
| Component: | ImageEditor-Versioning | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | caulier.gilles, metzpinguin |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 8.5.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 8.6.0 | |
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Description
Daniel Danner
2024-12-31 22:18:03 UTC
We've discussed this hundreds of times. In the digiKam settings under Image Editor -> Versioning, you can deactivate the hiding of the original images if you don't want it. If you move them at the same time, there is a risk that the original images might be deleted. There are users who have not saved the original images in the same directory. We're leaving it as it is for now. Maik I'm sorry if this has already been discussed before. I've tried my best to find open issues here or anything on the Internet, but the only thing that came up was this forum post, where a user most likely had the exact same problem but couldn't figure it out themselves: https://discuss.kde.org/t/hidden-items-in-album-that-should-not-be-hidden/3434 (and neither did anybody reading it, apparently) I understand that I can disable it (and I did), but that's not really the point. What's problematic here is that once enabled, its behavior is so opaque, that even if I had *just* enabled the feature, I'd have no idea whatsoever that *this* is what I signed up for. Outside of one occurrence in the help text, the entire settings page doesn't even speak of "hiding" or "hidden items" at all. I can imagine that moving the originals is tricky. Keeping it simple, there are still other avenues for mitigating this. For instance, assuming that there is currently no other mechanism for hiding items (I didn't find one while desperately searching for an unhide button), the status bar could simply say something like "42 old versions hidden" instead. This would already make a huge difference, giving people a chance to discover the corresponding settings page. And just to mention it: Offering a menu action for temporarily revealing hidden items and thus opening a path for navigating to their current versions would of course be ideal, but presumably much more effort. Did you read the online documentation ? https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/editor_settings.html#image-versioning-settings Gilles Caulier I'm not even sure if you're asking me or Maik, because ironically, that link underscores my argument. It makes zero mentions of hiding or hidden items. If it did, it might actually have shown up in one of my dozens of Google searches. To you, Maik is developer from the team, and he know very well the presence and the importance of the online manual. If something is missing in the doc, i will update it in this way. Manual is very huge and to have a global view of the contents it's difficult, especially for this first day of the year (:-)))... My best Gilles Caulier Thanks! :-) |