I'm trying to find a workflow. Gwenview is great for looking through images for further processing, but I need a way to "mark" the ones I want.

Typically I just make a note of their number (IMG1032.JPG or whatever) on a piece of paper and then open that folder in Dolphin, select those numbers and copy them into another folder. Rather ..low-tech.

Moving each individual file from within Gwenview takes way too long.

I'd love to have some way of marking in Gwenview, and then copying those marked into some other folder. But that would require more features into Gwenview, which I'm not sure is a good thing (the coolest thing about Gwenview is how fast and light it is).

One thing I thought about was just enabling Nepomuk and pressing "5" on those pictures I like. At least I can click on images in Dolphin and look in the Information panel and see if they have 5 stars, but that's just as slow (is there a way to select all starred images in a folder in Dolphin? Haven't found any menu items or anything, can't even sort by stars...)

Anyone got any tips?

Gwenview can copy/move files, too

Vladimiroff wrote:Gwenview can copy/move files, too

Yes, although unfortunately -- at least for me -- it opens with ~/Documents as the default copy-to folder instead of the (deeply nested) folder where the source file is

However, I noticed under the file browser in Gwenview, there is a "filter" thing where you can filter by stars then it's possible to click filter, select "rating", click a star, then select all and drag into a dolphin folder. Rather many clicks, but I guess it's a start...

Hopefully they'll make the filtering UI look like Digikam's -- that's possibly the one feature where I believe Digikam is easier to use than Gwenview.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253478

You can also drag an drop the images to the address bar, if you put the image above the arrow it opens a menu with folders and you can even navigate in them from that menu, when you get to the folder you drop them and select copy or whatever you want.
Also 1 question why not enable dolphin preview and do everything from there?

damipereira wrote:You can also drag an drop the images to the address bar, if you put the image above the arrow it opens a menu with folders and you can even navigate in them from that menu, when you get to the folder you drop them and select copy or whatever you want.

Arrow? Not sure I understand...

damipereira wrote:Also 1 question why not enable dolphin preview and do everything from there?

Because it's not big enough Sometimes I want fullscreen or semi-fullscreen.

unhammer wrote:

damipereira wrote:You can also drag an drop the images to the address bar, if you put the image above the arrow it opens a menu with folders and you can even navigate in them from that menu, when you get to the folder you drop them and select copy or whatever you want.

Arrow? Not sure I understand...

If you right-click on the address bar and set it to "navigate" mode, you should have a series of folder names with a > symbol between them. If you drag on or more files there, then hold it for a moment a list of subfolders will appear. You can then drop the file or files and you will get a menu asking whether you want to move, copy, or link the files.

damipereira wrote:Also 1 question why not enable dolphin preview and do everything from there?

Because it's not big enough Sometimes I want fullscreen or semi-fullscreen.[/quote]
Have you tried increasing the size of the information bar? Previews there should resize to fill the space available.

TheBlackCat wrote:

unhammer wrote:

damipereira wrote:Also 1 question why not enable dolphin preview and do everything from there?

Because it's not big enough Sometimes I want fullscreen or semi-fullscreen.

Have you tried increasing the size of the information bar? Previews there should resize to fill the space available.

The slider only goes to 256x256 pixels here... anyway, just using Dolphin you have to ctrl+click (or click +) and make sure you don't inadvertently unselect all your hard work. I believe starring in Gwenview, then filtering, then dragging to some Dolphin folder is the safest and simplest solution I've seen so far...

I am no talking about the previews, I am talking about the information panel. If you drag the edge of it you can make the panel larger or smaller, and the preview will resize accordingly.

As for a solution to the selection issue, here is My idea.

TheBlackCat wrote:I am no talking about the previews, I am talking about the information panel. If you drag the edge of it you can make the panel larger or smaller, and the preview will resize accordingly.

As for a solution to the selection issue, here is My idea.

Ah, info panel. Haven't used that much I like the idea.

Information panel is a great idea, yet I think gwenview should support this kind of things a bit more though I'm not really sure how.
I describe the issue as I see it here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=91197