Ticket #3848 (closed bug: invalid)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

print composer: Image remove from Item tab doesn't work

Reported by: Donkagen2 Owned by: nobody
Priority: minor: annoyance Milestone: Version 1.7.0
Component: Printing Version: Trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Platform Version: Platform: Windows
Must Fix for Release: No Awaiting user input: no

Description

When working with images, on the Item tab the Remove button doesn't work as expected.

If an image is selected in the Preview window and Remove is clicked, the selected image remains but a group of images at the start of the list are removed.

Change History

Changed 2 years ago by Donkagen2

  • summary changed from print composer: to print composer: Image remove from Item tab doesn't work

Changed 2 years ago by mhugent

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to invalid

The 'remove' button is in the 'directory' group box -> it means that an image search directory is removed, not an individual image.

Changed 2 years ago by Donkagen2

  • priority changed from major: does not work as expected to minor: annoyance

Ok, but it isn't intuitive.

To add images one clicks Add... , a dialog opens and then select the directory to add. The dropdown list of directories isn't used.

To remove images (or in this case their directory) the user has to guess the directory from the drop-down list before clicking Remove. If they guessed correctly, the images are removed but if not then they've lost the wrong images and details about the directory that they were in. All this time, the user is presented with a highlighted image, giving the impression that it is what will be removed.

Expecting a user to guess what will be removed, still seems to be a bug.

A more intuitive way could be to open a dialog when Remove is clicked and present a pick list there. Picking would highlight or otherwise identify the images in the selected directory, then clicking OK would remove the images that the user intended - no scope for confusion.

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