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<p>Yeah, using stuff like flags, labels and stars only work inside
DK so will not integrate with other tools. Thus, this is not an
option. I will have to rely on good old folders...</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2022-08-08 13:55, Helen Jelen wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello,
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<div dir="auto">Can't speak of your other tools in the
workflow but for splitting "final albums" to "not reviewed
albums" you can use flags/labels/stars + search on them, or
the other solution I proposed: setting folder icons for the
"final" albums, although they can't be used in the
searcher. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Can't think of any better solution on my
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<p>Hi Helen,</p>
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<p>I import into year/in because 1) it already fits with
a lot of other tooling in my workflow and 2) it
enables a two stage approach in which I can first do a
coarse grained sort of the imported files into albums
under year/in/<album> but having these albums
reside inside "in" folders, I know these are not ready
to go into the actual collection yet as they have not
been fully processed and released from the "in"
staging area.</p>
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<p>I am not sure what you mean by this text:<br>
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<p>> I do import directly into year's folder <u>and
use folder's icon to sort </u><br>
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<p>BR</p>
<p>Thomas<br>
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<div dir="auto">Why do you import into /in/ instead
of importing directly into the year's folder and
in there set different flags/stars/labels so to
know which folders have been reviewed and sorted
out vs. those that haven't? </div>
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<div dir="auto">I do import directly into year's
folder and use folder's icon to sort (not super
optimised as you can't search/filter by folder's
icon, but you can use labels/flags instead,
combined with a search query. </div>
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2022, 11:02 Thomas <<a
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<p>Hello,</p>
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<p>I am trying to improve the ergonomics of
my workflow when importing a new batch of
images into my photo collection.</p>
<p><b>I have all my photos organized like
this:</b></p>
<p>/photos/<year>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name></p>
<p>Where <yyyy-mm-dd> is the date of
the particular photo session in the album.</p>
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<p><b>This is my workflow:</b></p>
<p>I will move all photos from the kamera
into the folder</p>
<p>I have all my photos organized like this:</p>
<p>/photos/<year>/<font
color="#d50000">in</font>/<yyyy-mm-dd></p>
<p>where <yyyy-mm-dd> is the <i>import-date</i>.<br>
</p>
<p>This folder will typically have hundreds
or thousands of photos from several photo
sessions.</p>
<p>I will now sort these into an album for
each session as well as delete all photos
that are too poor quality.</p>
<p>So the sub albums will then be something
like<br>
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<p>/photos/<year>/<font
color="#d50000">in</font>/<yyyy-mm-dd>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name></p>
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<p>When I have done that, I will typically
have dosens of albums in folders like
<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name> all
located in the <year>/in folder.</p>
<p>I will now have to move these into the
actual photo collection for that year (ie.
move them out of the "in" folder).</p>
<p>The way I do this is to drag the folder
one by one onto the particylar
<year> folder (parent to "in") via
the Albums list.</p>
<p>The problem here is that the albums list
is huge. It has several hundred albums in
it. So for example when I am in 2022/in, I
have to be very careful with the mouse
while dragging each album to the parent
folder. <br>
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<p>The problem is exacerbated by the fact
that I can only move one album at a time.
DK will not allow me to select several
albums to move.</p>
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<p>I can approach this in a different way,
however: I can open the 'in' folder in my
operating system file manager and then
move the albums easily from there. Eg. by
cutting and pasting them. Then I can do a
refresh inside Digikam afterwards and DK
will then see the original albums as
having been deleted and discover the new
albums as having been created. Problem
here is obviously that then DK seems to
miss all metadata about them such as tags,
recognized faces, etc.</p>
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<p>So I have been trying to improve the
ergonomics here in two ways:</p>
<p>1. Tried to detach the albums list</p>
<p>2. Tried to open an additional
application window</p>
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<p>Neither of these approaches seem
possible. Please see below<br>
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<p><b>Detached albums list</b><br>
</p>
<p>I have been trying to figure out if it is
possible to "detach" the albums view such
that it is a free floating window that is
not attached to the digikam main window.</p>
<p>What I mean is this part highlighted with
red:</p>
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<p>I think this is common functionality in
many other complex applications such as
for example Gimp, Photoshop, etc. that you
can drag such parts of the application
into separate windows in order to ease a
particular workflow or to make it more
ergonomic.</p>
<p>I think Gimp call this Dockable dialogs.
Probably not the best name for the concept
as these are not typically dialog
windows...<br>
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<p>Let me illustrate with an example from
Gimp:</p>
<p><img alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
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<p>All the various visible parts of this
application can be "docked" or "detached"
from the main window.</p>
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<p>See the one I highlighted with red.</p>
<p>I will now click and drag it:</p>
<p><img alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
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<p>See, I get this tool options for Brushes
as a separate window.</p>
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<p><b>My question is: Can I do something to
that effect on the Albums list in
Digikam?</b></p>
<p>If I can do this, how to do it?</p>
<p>If not? Can it be implemented?</p>
<p>How/where do I report this feature
request?</p>
<p>I have tried searching <a
href="http://bugs.kde.org"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">bugs.kde.org</a>
for reported issues around this but was
not able to find any. However, I must
admit I have a really hard time navigating
and searching <a
href="http://bugs.kde.org"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">bugs.kde.org</a>.</p>
<p>I would love to report this as a bug,
however, the <a
href="http://bugs.kde.org"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">bugs.kde.org</a>
interface was a bit confusing to me. It
seems I must report this to a specific
component of digikam. But I have no idea
what component this should be for....</p>
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<p><b>Additional application window</b></p>
<p>An alternative approach that could
greatly improve the ergonomics of my
workflow is to be able to open multiple DK
windows.</p>
<p>This is functionality that is present in
most common office applications.</p>
<p>Allow me to illustrate with an example
from LibreOffice Writer:</p>
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<p>Here we see a document opened in LO
Writer:</p>
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<p>I can click the <i>Window</i> menu to
get a new duplicate Window.</p>
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<p><img alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
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<p>This will produce two identical windows
that will allow me to view two different
parts of the same document in parallel.
This is highly useful, for example when
you need to reference something in a
different part of a large document.</p>
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<p><b>My question is: Is something to that
effect possible with Digikam?</b></p>
<p>If it is, how to do it?</p>
<p>If not? Can it be implemented?</p>
<p>How/where do I report this feature
request?</p>
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