This report is about two (possibly related) issues with the Date Bar: a) The date bar has a "lens", that always resets to somewhere in the middle of the date range of the whole database (somewhere around 1993 in my case). I usually shift the lens to a more recent date and then drill down by expanding the date range (from year to month to week to day). Unfortunately the lens stays always too far left, sometimes off screen. ==> the lens should stay on screen and when selecting a date range (blue range below the date bar) it should move to the beginning of this range. (I would rate this "enhancement wish" - but it might just fit into the hunt for point b) b) When I have a date range selected, this selection is lost after most other interactions (like selecting in the categories, displaying thumbnails, navigating with back / forward). As far as I remember, the date bar selection was fairly stable in former revisions and behaved more or less like a category selection (with the same back/forward - functionality). ==> The date bar selection should have more or less the same functionality and stability as a category selection and react to back/forward (and home). It should not reset when doing other selections. I guess, the current behavior makes the date bar not totally useless, but a lot less useful as it once was - and probably much more difficult to understand. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. do a date bar selection of (say) two recent days 2. select a category (present in that range) 3. show thumbnails 4. hit "back" to do another category selection Actual Results: 5. ==> at this moment, the date range is lost. Expected Results: It should be possible to select within a date range a place and some people AND change this selection after viewing the thumbnails without loosing the date selection. Version v4.6.2-119-gec4650f Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.10
To make this issue somewhat clearer (tested again with KPA 4.7.1): The behavior of the date bar is different if accessed from the start screen then from the thumbnail browser. From the start screen: fails (somewhat) From the thumbnail viewer: works as expected. To reproduce: * In fresh session of KPA on any larger database select a year (eg. 2016) below the bar. * then enter the thumbnail viewer (the correct range of pictures appear) * BUT: the datebar is reset to its initial state (it should stay in its selected state to make refinements easily available). Workaround: * start thumbnail viewer first (on all pictures) * then manipulate the date bar * refinements and re-selections work as expected
Do you mean that the datebar loses its selection, but still manages to restrict the range of the images? I couldn't reproduce anything like this, but I'm getting the feeling that I misunderstood something... Steps I tried to reproduce (using the demo db for reference): 1. Select year 2006 -> 4 matches 2. Select "Places/USA" -> 3 matches 3. Enter thumbnailview 4. Hit "back" 5. Select "People/Jesper" -> 2 matches My normal DB behaves analogously. P.S.: I saw one issue with the datebar, though: Selecting one year in the datebar at the lowest "zoom level" selected that year and the next one (visible once one zooms in).
Created attachment 98226 [details] slo mo screenshot movie (3 sec pre frame) of the problem Hi Johannes, watch the movie. It takes some, maybe strange, operations to get to the point. However, just letting the lens follow the date selection would be a nice enhancement. Cheers, Andreas
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Yes, I can report, that this is still as reported in the latest git master v5.8.1-115-gd77b7c1b. (see the slo mo screenshot movie) Sorry for the delay, I had to update my system to be able to build again.
Thanks for checking again, Andreas. I also tried to reproduce the bug again, with some luck. a. When the DateBar is zoomed and no "focus"/"lens" is set, the selection is usually outside of the visible range. -> I can reproduce this. b. DateBar selection is lost when using "show thumbnails", back/forward navigation, category selection, etc.), even though the selection is still applied. First of all: I finally understood what you meant - that the selection on the DateBar itself is lost, even though the images are correctly filtered. I don't know why I didn't get that before... I could not reproduce all of these, but when trying to do so I managed to encounter the described behaviour one time. Sadly, I could not reproduce the steps to do so. Following the steps outlined in the video, or in Comment 1 did not reproduce the bug for me. I'm happy for any additional hints since you can reproduce the bug every time but I could only do so once by sheer luck. The situation is quite frustrating... I'm marking the bug as confirmed since I could reproduce it at least once (and part a is straighforwardly reproducible).
Git commit c63c93c40462b492882d4c8951e02173edb33d4b by Johannes Zarl-Zierl. Committed on 03/12/2022 at 01:23. Pushed by johanneszarl into branch 'master'. Center DateBar selection when zooming. This prevents the DateBar selection from moving out of sight when zooming in. M +26 -3 DateBar/DateBarWidget.cpp M +17 -2 DateBar/DateBarWidget.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kphotoalbum/commit/c63c93c40462b492882d4c8951e02173edb33d4b
I tested with v5.9.1-99-gd3133368 and I cannot reproduce any undesirable behavior of the date bar anymore. So, from my point of view, this little bug can be closed just a few days before its 7th birthday ;-) Very nice! Thanks to Johannes for fixing it and to Justin to put it into focus again.