Bug 509375

Summary: Rating an image is counter intuitive in some situations
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Marcus Hardt <marcus>
Component: Usability-ErgonomyAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: marcus, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 8.8.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Marcus Hardt 2025-09-11 09:04:59 UTC
SUMMARY
I (try to shift to digikam to) rate my images in the "preview mode" (since in slideshow mode, I can't zoom to 100% to evaluate the image).

Rating works as expected: hit 0-5 to set the rating.
Except, when an image was already rated to the same rating that I want to give:

Pressing a "3" on an image that already has three stars will store a 0-star rating.  (Same for other ratings, as well, i.e. pressing "2" on a 2-star rated image, ...)

This also happens in overview mode, where it is less of a problem, because there I have visual feedback about the rating.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
0. Enter full-screen and preview mode
1. rate an image
2. rate it again with the same value
3. observe that the rating is "zero"

OBSERVED RESULT
Image is not rated anymore (0-star)

EXPECTED RESULT
Image is rated with the key that I pressed.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If there was the same little info-box as in "slideshow" on the bottom left, I had the necessary visual feedback needed to avoid ending up with awesome images, erratically not rated at all.
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2025-09-11 10:29:19 UTC
In digiKam 8.6.0, it is possible to set shortcuts to prevent a rating from being toggled.
See Bug 495722

Maik