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P: "Grid view" vs "Film strip view" confusing UX

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September 21, 2018
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A few days ago I was facing the problem I could not edit multiple pictures capture time (see here Lightroom CC: Ability to change EXIF capture date/time). In this topic (thanks to Victoria) I found that In Grid view Lightroom behaves somewhat different then in Film strip view. Everything seems to look the same, but once it affects all selected photos and once only one photo even with multiple selected. Here the Grid view has more capabilities than the same in Film strip view.

Today I got another lesson. If I press Delete button on physical keyboard in Grid view, picture is being removed from an album. BUT if I do exact same thing in Film strip view I get those pictures permanently deleted and lost (trash functionality of course was not implemented yet). So this time the Film strip view is more powerful and has bigger consequences then Grid view, so it is exactly the opposite logic then in previous issue with editing capture time.

I am switching from Grid to Filmstrip only because I want to see big or smaller images and I definitely do not expect such a differences in app behaviour pressing exactly same buttons.

Please, don't you have some UI / UX expert nearby to bring some rules into app behaviour?

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Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

I've created a bug in the interest of consistency on the KBSC.

LrCC Windows - in Album - Loupe View [Del] deletes from everywhere.
LrCC Windows - in Album - Grid View [Del] removes from Album.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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Cicuryn10499771Author

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This might be the lead. Backspace always deletes only from an album, not completely.

It is common on Windows to use Delete while Backspace generally just removes last written characters and sometimes is being used as a "go back" shortcut.

Funny fact - in Film strip view Alt+Backspace freezes the whole Lightroom and you have to switch to another app and back for Deletion prompt to appear. Lightroom must be running in fullscreen and it does not occur in grid view though.

Victoria Bampton LR Queen

Community Expert

I've booted up a Windows VM to test and the backspace key is doing exactly what I'd expect - backspace just removes from album, alt-backspace deletes everywhere.

But I'm hearing that there is a difference between backspace and delete on Windows... does the backspace key (the intended shortcut) work as expected for you?

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen

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Cicuryn10499771Author

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It is usual office keyboard, not any gaming device with ability to create or modify shortcuts. I don't think that such SW could possibly watch what is on screen and have some evil AI that would switch Delete button behaving depending on what is happening on screen anyway 😄

It also behaves exactly the same on my work laptop without any 3rd party KB SW installed.

Victoria Bampton LR Queen

Community Expert

You were running into another keyboard oddity on another thread, and you had some Logitech software installed? Is it possible to deactivate this temporarily as I'm wondering if it's changing shortcuts.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen

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Cicuryn10499771Author

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Definitely agree.

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