[Koko] [Bug 470202] Feature to create photo albums (groups of photos)

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470202

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
I have a significant concern here: overlaying a non-filesystem-based
organizational structure on top of the underlying filesystem-based
organizational structure contributes to vendor lock-in. If you ever want to use
a different app, you lose your photo organization, because outside of the
filesystem, there's no cross-app/desktop standard for photo organization the
way there is with music files for example, where correctly-tagged music can be
displayed in any sane music library app.

This is quite an unpleasant thing to realize after you switch photo apps--or
even worse, switch whole platforms--and the careful organization you did in the
old app is completely lost in the new one. So I think if we did implement this,
we'd want the underlying data structure to remain portable such that other apps
can make use of it in a sane way. So it might be best if this was implemented
in such a way that changes made for this are actually reflected in the
filesystem. e.g. a photo appearing in multiple places could be symlinked or
hardlinked from its original location to the other one, and creating a new
album just created a new folder on disk.

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