Dialog box QoL improvements

[daFreeMan]

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• Yes

The feature

All dialog boxes should have a logical cursor location (usually the first field to be entered), a default button to accept the Enter key (usually Confirm, Save, OK, Yes, etc.), and a default button (usually Cancel or No) to accept the Esc key. As it stands no dialog boxes that I've come across have a default field or button, requiring mouse movements for everything, and frankly, I'm rather shocked to find that. Maybe these are just things that are only typical in the Windows world, and maybe aren't in Linux, MacOS, or web, but it makes life significantly easier. Maybe it's just because I'm old and learned to use computers before the mouse was a common thing, so keyboard operation was the only way, but I find using the keyboard for as much as possible to be much faster for most processes.

A couple of specific examples that are making my life miserable right now:

Date edit dialog:

I have created external directories pointing at my server containing thousands of scanned film images. My wife is thoroughly (as much as is possible) documenting the contents of the picture in the filename, including the date it was taken and the people in the picture.

When they're uploaded, they end up having the date the image was scanned, instead of the date the photo was taken, as the creation date. While inconvenient, I fully understand this (and I did find and upvote a request to look for date/time info in the file name & use it for the creation date/time), however, as I'm going through the images to edit the date, it's a royal pain dealing with the date edit dialog box. The cursor is not anywhere in the dialog box - if I start typing or tabbing nothing happens.

When the dialog box pops up, the cursor should be in the MM field of the MM/DD/YYYY entry section. That way, I can simply start typing the date from the file name (See 1 in the following image).

Additionally, the Confirm button should be set as the default button so that when I hit the Enter key it automatically confirms the selection and closes the dialog box (See 2 in the following).

Finally, hitting Escape should Cancel or close the dialog box.

This would make my operation:

1. Small mouse movement to the "right arrow" icon to move to the next image
2. Small mouse movement to the "date", then click to edit
3. Type in the new date (and time if known), tab to the timezone to adjust (if desired), hit Enter to save
4. Loop to 1) until I'm done or tired.

This would significantly increase efficiency of and reduce the time needed to do these edits.

Name edit dialog:

Often, I have to open the list of images that are associated with an identified, but not yet named person, to ensure I know who that person is before I tag it. Once I've confirmed who the person is, if it needs to be merged with an existing person, I click on Add a name, start typing the name, then arrow down to the name I want to merge with. The merge confirmation dialog pops up, and in this case, the X is selected; (1 in the following image). While this is an improvement, having the Yes button to confirm the action would make more sense and, IMHO, be more reasonable. While I can Shift-tab to get to Yes quickly via the keyboard, it's still inefficient (and with over 7000 people identified in my images, I need maximum efficiency to get through this process!).

Having Yes (see 2 in the following) the default for accepting the Enter key and No (3 in the following) the default for accepting the Esc key would be logical and make for a smoother, easier, and faster processing.

Platform

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