Selections (from extension "Selections") is not saved when gthumb is closed

[Florian Stallmann]

- Add any picture to selection (e.g. by pressing Alt+1)
- See your selection (press Strg+1)
- Restart ghtumb
- Selection is not persisted, page is empty

(This used to work a couple of weeks or months ago.)

[Jan Rüegg (rggjan)]

It's a feature, not a bug! See:
https://github.com/GNOME/gthumb/blob/master/NEWS

version 3.5.2
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 * Selections: save at exit and restore at start.

version 3.5.4
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 * Do not save selections. This broke workflows where selections were involved.

[David Dchtoo (y-david-q)]

Just lost an hour of tagging due to this unexpected behavior. I suggest that
* selections are persisted !
* it's already quite easy to clear selection, for example with "ctrl+a del". a context-menu option of "Clear all selections" could be added
* if really necessary for some obscure workflow, a "Persist selections" switch, by default enabled, can be added to Preferences

[Semyon Maryasin (marsoft89)]

Same problem here! Lost my tagging several times due to this bug.
Selections should certainly be persisted by default, and that behavior may be configured in settings.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.