Digikam: when editing captions, the previous value should be the default

[David Nemeskey]

When I select the "Edit caption" option from the menu, the editing dialog always shows an empty text area, even if the picture has a caption associated with it. This makes it very cumbersome to e.g. correct a mistake in the caption.

The text area should contain the previous caption as the default value.

Also, in the same dialog, the default focus should be on the text area. Now it is on the OK button, which doesn't make any sense, especially with the text area being empty.

[David Nemeskey (nemeskeyd)]

Forgot to mention: I am using Hardy. Digikam version is 0.9.3.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

This is wishlist and I have submitted upstream bug.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Version: (using KDE 4.1.96)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages

From Ubuntu bug:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/254540

"When I select the "Edit caption" option from the menu, the editing dialog always shows an empty text area, even if the picture has a caption associated with it. This makes it very cumbersome to e.g. correct a mistake in the caption.

The text area should contain the previous caption as the default value.

Also, in the same dialog, the default focus should be on the text area. Now it is on the OK button, which doesn't make any sense, especially with the text area being empty."

This is still the case with digikam 0.10.0 rc1. I think this is sensible expectation for the user and could be implemented for the case where only single image is selected. Old caption should be selected/highlighted in order to allow simple overwrite.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

"Edit caption" action is provided by KIPI-Plugins, therefore assigning to right package.

In Digikam you can also modify Caption in the right sidebar, and there you will have old caption available for modification/deletion.

[Caulier-gilles-9 (caulier-gilles-9)]

SVN commit 916369 by cgilles:

kipi-plugins from trunk : Comment Edit tool : if only one image is selected from kipi host, set comment text field from this item.
In case of multiselection, do not preset comment.
BUG: 181694

 M +5 -6 commenteditdialog.cpp
 M +4 -3 commenteditdialog.h
 M +8 -1 plugin_metadataedit.cpp

WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=916369

[Luka Renko (lure)]

This will be available in next KDE4 RC build.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

This is in Jaunty.