Grouping muliple version of same images

[Steiner, Erich (KGOU 121)]

Hello all

 

If I do edit an image in digikam and use several times “save as new version”, then I get several thumbnails of this image in the album view. When selecting one of this images I can see the different versions of it also in the right hand side “Versions”-pane. So digikam seems to know correctly that these images belong together.

 

Now shouldn’t for this different versions of one image not just one single thumbnail be shown in the album view? I would expect that these versions are automatically grouped together, similar as if I us the “Group”-functionality.

 

Regards

Eru

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

There are some options (in the settings dialog) where you should be able to
tune the behavior
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[Andrew Goodbody-3]

On 29/08/13 09:59, Steiner, Erich (KGOU 121) wrote:

> Hello all
>
> If I do edit an image in digikam and use several times “save as new
> version”, then I get several thumbnails of this image in the album view.
> When selecting one of this images I can see the different versions of it
> also in the right hand side “Versions”-pane. So digikam seems to know
> correctly that these images belong together.
>
> Now shouldn’t for this different versions of one image not just one
> single thumbnail be shown in the album view? I would expect that these
> versions are automatically grouped together, similar as if I us the
> “Group”-functionality.
>
> Regards
>
> Eru

I think you have been misled by the confusing labelling of that button.
With the non-destructive editing and versioning enabled you have two
choices, Save or Save as new version. When you choose Save, the current
state of the image is saved but you can of course go back to previous
versions due to the non-destructive editing. But you only see the latest
version by default. I think that this is the behaviour that you actually
want.
Whereas Save as new version, will always give you a new view of that
image as well as the previous view. So every time you use that button
you are telling Digikam that you want to see the previous version of the
image as well as the new version.

Andrew
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[Eru Steiner]

> I think you have been misled by the confusing labelling of that
> button. With the non-destructive editing and versioning enabled you
> have two choices, Save or Save as new version. When you choose Save,
> the current state of the image is saved but you can of course go back
> to previous versions due to the non-destructive editing. But you only
> see the latest version by default. I think that this is the behaviour
> that you actually want.
Yes that's (almost) what I expected, thanks for this explanation (Yes
this is really misleading to me).

But I'm still a bit confused and think it is buggy. If I start with
IMG_xyz.JPG:

1st time edit it and use save then I get a new image IMG_xyz_v1.JPG. Now
I only see the latest version and in the right-side version pane I can
click the little bullet to also show / hide the original version.

2nd time edit and use save. This time it's saved again into
IMG_xyz_v1.JPG, still on the right hand side I can choose to also show /
hide the original version

3rd time edit and use save as new version. Now I see IMG_xyz_v1.JPG and
IMG_xyz_v2.JPG. On the right-hand side I can show / hide on of
IMG_xyz.JPG, but not IMG_xyz_v1.JPG, it is always visible.

Btw. Under "Configure digikam" / "Editing Images": the two checkboxes
"always show original images" and "always show intermediate snapshots"
are both not selected!

I think this is somehow a bug!?

Eru
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[Andrew Goodbody-3]

On 29/08/13 23:50, Eru Steiner wrote:

>
>> I think you have been misled by the confusing labelling of that
>> button. With the non-destructive editing and versioning enabled you
>> have two choices, Save or Save as new version. When you choose Save,
>> the current state of the image is saved but you can of course go back
>> to previous versions due to the non-destructive editing. But you only
>> see the latest version by default. I think that this is the behaviour
>> that you actually want.
> Yes that's (almost) what I expected, thanks for this explanation (Yes
> this is really misleading to me).
>
> But I'm still a bit confused and think it is buggy. If I start with
> IMG_xyz.JPG:
>
> 1st time edit it and use save then I get a new image IMG_xyz_v1.JPG. Now
> I only see the latest version and in the right-side version pane I can
> click the little bullet to also show / hide the original version.
>
> 2nd time edit and use save. This time it's saved again into
> IMG_xyz_v1.JPG, still on the right hand side I can choose to also show /
> hide the original version
>
> 3rd time edit and use save as new version. Now I see IMG_xyz_v1.JPG and
> IMG_xyz_v2.JPG. On the right-hand side I can show / hide on of
> IMG_xyz.JPG, but not IMG_xyz_v1.JPG, it is always visible.
>
> Btw. Under "Configure digikam" / "Editing Images": the two checkboxes
> "always show original images" and "always show intermediate snapshots"
> are both not selected!
>
> I think this is somehow a bug!?
>
> Eru

No, not a bug. Using Save as new version creates a new branch in the
hierarchy tree. You cannot hide the end of a branch. So you now have two
branches, one ending in v1 and one ending in v2. This is what Save as
new version does for you. If that is not what you want then do not use
Save as new version.

Andrew

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