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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>
</p>
<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>
</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>
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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>
<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>
<p><img src="cid:part1.Mr2jwQPI.Iou5FGJA@gmail.com" alt=""></p>
<p><br>
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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>
</p>
<p>Let me illustrate with an example from Gimp:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part2.4ptwaLYP.Q3pcZrlq@gmail.com" alt=""></p>
<p><br>
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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>
<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=""></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<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 bugs.kde.org 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 bugs.kde.org.</p>
<p>I would love to report this as a bug, however, the bugs.kde.org
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>
<p>Here we see a document opened in LO Writer:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part4.n8j00YYH.TRbFn6hR@gmail.com" alt=""></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I can click the <i>Window</i> menu to get a new duplicate
Window.</p>
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</p>
<p><img src="cid:part5.opZbp4k1.A87yPxfA@gmail.com" alt=""></p>
<p><br>
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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>
<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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Thomas</pre>
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