Usability issues while deleting duplicates

[Dan Dascalescu]

I'm relatively new to digiKam, so maybe I'm missing something. My goal is to quickly go through duplicates and delete the smaller images.

After I click Find Duplicates, I click on "Ref. images", then double click on the first thumbnail. After going with left/right arrow through the duplicates (let's say there are 5 of them), I press Shift+Delete to delete one of them.

At this point, digiKam unhelpfully displays "Failed to load image" and kicks me out of that duplicate set.

What I think makes a lot more sense is to let me navigate with the arrows through the other images in the set of duplicates, until I delete all but one.

...

Okay, let's say I try to work around this and look at the images then shift+select the ones I want to delete, then press Shift+Delete. Again, the keyboard focus is lost. Instead, it would make more sense to focus on the next reference image.

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 24 janvier 2017 21:05:03 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> I'm relatively new to digiKam, so maybe I'm missing something. My goal is
> to quickly go through duplicates and delete the smaller images.
>
(...)
> Okay, let's say I try to work around this and look at the images then
> shift+select the ones I want to delete, then press Shift+Delete. Again, the
> keyboard focus is lost. Instead, it would make more sense to focus on the
> next reference image.

Have you tried using the pick labels available under <alt>+1, <alt>+2 and
<alt>+3 (red, yellow, green flags, marked "rejected", "pending" and "accepted"
resp)?

Once you have marked all to be deleted with a red flag, filter on those and
delete the selected images. Advantages: you can interrupt a session and
continue at a later time, without losing the selections made, you can defer
the deletion to a time where it suits you (e.g.just before a coffee break)

Remco

[Dan Dascalescu]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

Once you have marked all to be deleted with a red flag, filter on those and

delete the selected images. Advantages: you can interrupt a session and
continue at a later time, without losing the selections made, you can defer
the deletion to a time where it suits you (e.g.just before a coffee break)

Major disadvantage: digiKam freezes after clicking on the label.

As for the advantages, I'm not going to dwell over whether I want to delete a bunch of dupes or not. If I decide to delete an image, I want to make it so, not defer that for later. Being interrupted is not a problem, if digiKam behaved as I described: I'd just come back and keep deleting images as I see them.

Alt+3 is a workaround, but really, I see no good reason for digiKam to reset everything after deleting a file, so I've filed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375573

[Remco Viëtor]

On mercredi 25 janvier 2017 21:12:24 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>
>
> wrote:
> > Once you have marked all to be deleted with a red flag, filter on those
> > and
>
> delete the selected images. Advantages: you can interrupt a session and
>
> > continue at a later time, without losing the selections made, you can
> > defer
> > the deletion to a time where it suits you (e.g.just before a coffee break)
>
> Major disadvantage: digiKam freezes after clicking on the label.
>
> As for the advantages, I'm not going to dwell over whether I want to delete
> a bunch of dupes or not. If I decide to delete an image, I want to make it
> so, not defer that for later. Being interrupted is not a problem, if
> digiKam behaved as I described: I'd just come back and keep deleting images
> as I see them.
>
> Alt+3 is a workaround, but really, I see no good reason for digiKam to
> reset everything after deleting a file, so I've filed
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375573

I was just suggesting another way to do it that's available right now. Up to
you to decide whether it fits with your way of working or not.

The 'Digikam freezes after clicking on the label' is new to me (I use the
system I describe to sort and clean new series of shots and never saw any
freezing).

But I get the impression that any suggestion of a work-around only annoys you.
Sorry for that, won't happen again.

Remco

[Dan Dascalescu]

Remco, thank you for the suggestion. I did adopt it as a workaround until a variation of the more direct flow I proposed on Bugzilla is implemented.

As for the freezing, it only happened when I first clicked on the labels, perhaps as digiKam was massively writing to the DB. Hasn't happened since.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

On mercredi 25 janvier 2017 21:12:24 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>
>
> wrote:
> > Once you have marked all to be deleted with a red flag, filter on those
> > and
>
> delete the selected images. Advantages: you can interrupt a session and
>
> > continue at a later time, without losing the selections made, you can
> > defer
> > the deletion to a time where it suits you (e.g.just before a coffee break)
>
> Major disadvantage: digiKam freezes after clicking on the label.
>
> As for the advantages, I'm not going to dwell over whether I want to delete
> a bunch of dupes or not. If I decide to delete an image, I want to make it
> so, not defer that for later. Being interrupted is not a problem, if
> digiKam behaved as I described: I'd just come back and keep deleting images
> as I see them.
>
> Alt+3 is a workaround, but really, I see no good reason for digiKam to
> reset everything after deleting a file, so I've filed
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375573

I was just suggesting another way to do it that's available right now. Up to
you to decide whether it fits with your way of working or not.

The 'Digikam freezes after clicking on the label' is new to me (I use the
system I describe to sort and clean new series of shots and never saw any
freezing).

But I get the impression that any suggestion of a work-around only annoys you.
Sorry for that, won't happen again.

Remco