[Digikam-devel] [Bug 91562] Change order of pictures in the virtual album manually

[Torsten Crass]

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------- Additional Comments From torsten.crass eBiology de  2007-11-13 12:47 -------
Hi all digiKam fans,

> I think being able to reorder images, preferably by dragging them to
> a new position in the album would be a great feature.

definitely! I've desperately been wating for years for this feature to be introduced! It's really such a pain that currently the only way to re-order images within an album (e.g. for HTML export) is to manually mess around with filenames, dates, and the like.

> I've not looked at the schema of the database, but assume it would be
> as simple as adding an order by column, and all queries could use
> this column in the order by clase.  The column could be initially
> populated by the order in which the images are added to an album,
> which in most cases should be file name or file creation date.

If I recall correctly, a patch implementing a sorting feature exactly the way your propose had been submitted years ago, but has initially been rejected since it would require a change in the database schema (though I don't believe adding a column should pose a big problem...). It was planned to introduce this patch in (I think) the 0.8 series of digiKam, but this hasn't happened yet -- in spite of the fact that we have 0.9.2 already... Considering that this is among the three highest rated digiKam feature request, I wonder when it will be implemented?

> Apart from that, I'm lov'n digikam, keep up the good work.

Agreed!

Regards --

    Torsten