<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hi Helen,</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I am not sure what you mean by this text:<br>
</p>
<p>> I do import directly into year's folder <u>and use folder's
icon to sort </u><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>BR</p>
<p>Thomas<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2022-08-08 12:48, Helen Jelen wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAMFKO6uu8vzFO5ycLTvWXxZiNmCPAcF=t_TfY3f6RJQA2dE+yA@mail.gmail.com">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<div dir="auto">
<div>Hello, </div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<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>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<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>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">BR,</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">hels</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 8, 2022, 11:02
Thomas <<a href="mailto:sdktda@gmail.com"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">sdktda@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
</p>
<p>/photos/<year>/<font color="#d50000">in</font>/<yyyy-mm-dd>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Neither of these approaches seem possible. Please see
below<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><img src="cid:part1.Mr2jwQPI.Iou5FGJA@gmail.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
</p>
<p>Let me illustrate with an example from Gimp:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part2.4ptwaLYP.Q3pcZrlq@gmail.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>All the various visible parts of this application can
be "docked" or "detached" from the main window.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>See the one I highlighted with red.</p>
<p>I will now click and drag it:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part3.kRo9rW2y.TewWtJyW@gmail.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>See, I get this tool options for Brushes as a
separate window.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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" 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" 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" 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>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Here we see a document opened in LO Writer:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part4.n8j00YYH.TRbFn6hR@gmail.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I can click the <i>Window</i> menu to get a new
duplicate Window.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><img src="cid:part5.opZbp4k1.A87yPxfA@gmail.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true"></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<pre cols="72">--
Mvh
Thomas</pre>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Mvh
Thomas</pre>
</body>
</html>