Bug 92351

Summary:	Wish: Save selection mode
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg>
Component:	Albums-MainView	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.7.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Marcel Wiesweg 2004-10-29 22:56:00 UTC

Version:           0.7-beta1 (using KDE 3.3.1, SuSE)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.6

Sometimes I am selecting a lot of pictures (not in sequence) to assign tags, apply plugins etc., and put quite a bit of work in this selection. Compared to this amount of work, there is a high risk of losing this selection, by forgetting to hold down Ctrl, by an inadvertent mouse click. 

I would appreciate a sort of "save selection mode", selectable by a toolbar button and a key combination.
In this mode the selection is never lost, you can click around as much as you like, the effect is the same as if Ctrl was pressed. You can even start the image viewer by double click or use the context menu. When you change the album, a dialog box asks if the selection shall really be lost.

Comment 1 Davide Ferrari 2004-12-12 11:02:47 UTC

Please take a look to the CTRL issue I'm talking about in #94913  and see if it's what you're saying about.

About what Renchi commented in my bug report, I know it would be a different behaviour than the default KDE one, but IMO in this case would be really more appropiate, cause as I said it's quite impossibile that someone would choose only one photo to be downloaded...

Comment 2 Marcel Wiesweg 2004-12-13 18:42:20 UTC

#94913 is about the camera dialogue, and this is about the main digikam window, but with Renchi's commit replacing qiconview wit Thumbview, there is no technical difference.
My wish does not only include a sort of "always-pressed-Ctrl" but also an "awareness" of the program: It shall know that the current selection is valuable and shall not be lost under any circumstances.

Comment 3 Mikolaj Machowski 2007-08-22 11:59:09 UTC

Can't it be done just by use of tags?

Comment 4 Mikolaj Machowski 2007-08-22 12:13:08 UTC

Bug 127753 is more extensive description of this wish. I don't close it (with advice to use tags instead) we at least can reduce number of entries in BKO :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127753 ***

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2022-01-29 14:49:22 UTC

Fixed with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127753