Version: 0.10.0-rc2 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Arch Linux) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-ARCH When pressing "Ctrl+A", digiKam selects all thumbnails in the abum icon view. The problem is that this action will interrupt every other widget, for example the Caption edit field in the Captions/Tags tab. If you click into the edit field and want to select the whole text with the standard keyboard shortcut, digiKam will select all thumbnails in album icon view again. This is a huge usability issue.
We can change the shortcut for this action, this would be the easiest solution. But it would be even better when Ctrl+A only elects the icons when album icon view is highlighted, so we don't need another shortcut only for this action.
A Focus Proxy need to be designed in digiKam. Possible implementation as example can be see in gwenview or dolphin for ex. There are others B.K.O files relevant of Focus Proxy. Gilles Caulier
Look at bug #181180! It's a qt/kdelibs bug and was fixed for 4.2.1 by David Faure.
Hmm don't know if this is a kdelibs issue, since it is not working anywhere in digiKam, and I saw this issue also last year, before the kdelibs bug was filed. It is working in other dialogs (or kipi-plugins), but not in digikam mainapp.
Since I have installed Qt 4.5 this bug is invalid for me. Can anyone else confirm that pressing CTRL+A in a lineedit or in the caption edit field will NOT select all images in the albumiconview, but instead select the text? If so we should close it again... Andi
Same here (qt 4.5.0-0ubuntu2), Ctrl-A behaves correctly. Gerhard
This seems to work now, I'll close it. Andi