[Bug 158374] New: download images dialog fails to report errors

[Thiago Jung Bauermann-3]

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           Summary: download images dialog fails to report errors
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.9.3
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: thiago.bauermann gmail com


Version:           0.9.3 (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

The download images dialog puts small icons over each image to signal de status of the download, like a kde gear for "ongoing", a green check for OK and a red X for red.

The problem I am reporting is that when it puts a red check in a image, no other information is given about what went wrong, and nowhere else in the dialog it is mentioned that something failed. This "error reporting" is very insufficient and is easy to be left unseen.

What if the user downloads 100's of images and only a few of them have errors? The only way to be sure that all went well is to slowly scroll down the images list and carefully check each image's status symbol. Very cumbersome. And even if the user notes the red X, he has no idea what went wrong.

This could be considered a wishlist or improvement, but I am filing it as a bug because it is very inadequate UI.
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

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------- Additional Comments From davidf sjsoft com  2008-03-01 05:48 -------
Note that this is related to Bug 158377 (that the errors in fact indicate that photos have been copied over other photos), although this is a separate issue
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------- Additional Comments From caulier.gilles gmail com  2008-03-18 12:31 -------
David,

as file #158377 is solved, i supose this entry become invalid. Right ?

Thiago, i need a fresh report from you using 0.9.4-beta1. Thanks in advance

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------- Additional Comments From thiago.bauermann gmail com  2008-03-18 15:00 -------
This is a separate issue than bug #158377. It's just that this issue surfaced for me at the time as that bug.

If the UI wasn't changed to warn the user about problems that happened, this bug is still present.

Regarding the report using 0.9.4-beta1, I'll try it out, then.
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------- Additional Comments From caulier.gilles gmail com  2008-03-18 15:05 -------
Thiago,

For me digiKam always report an error into a separate message box in live. For ex, if image cannot be taken from camera, deleted, copied to your computer, etc... and in this case digiKAm ask you if you want to continue of course.

Or perhaps for you, the failed operations are special... Please give me more informations to hack...

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------- Additional Comments From thiago.bauermann gmail com  2008-04-14 06:59 -------
Well, the bug #158377 was where I saw this behaviour. There were red X in the images but no separate message box for them. I don't know if there are other cases where this happens. Apart from that, I never had any error when downloading images with digikam (or I just missed them because I didn't have the habit of checking the Xs and Vs in each image (I do now!)).
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------- Additional Comments From davidf sjsoft com  2008-04-22 16:25 -------
Re Comment #5:
The main reason this occurred was that the logic was not thread safe. In theory if everything is working the code should not produce this error. However, there could still be a problem in the copy if the final rename fails. It will show a red cross, but not the error dialog, since this is only shown if the CameraEvent::gp_downloadFailed signal is sent from the copying thread.

This is much more unlikely without the threading issue - see my suggestions in http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158377 as to how to fix it but I don't think I'm going to have time to work on them.
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