[Digikam-devel] "Album Type" or "Album Family"

[Arnd Baecker]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> 2009/1/2 Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Andi Clemens wrote:
> >
> > > I would go with "Album Type", but I don't use this feature anyway, so I'm
> > not
> > > a big help here. I usually only tag images, folders can be found quickly
> > with
> > > the album search textfield.
> > >
> > > Anyay,
> > > +1 for "Album Type" from me.
> >
> > Hmm: I never understood these album collections .... ;-)
> >
> > Much more consistent to me would be the possibility to associate
> > tags to albums, as discussed in
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133011
> > However, I am not sure about all consequences of this
> > (and what changes would be required ...)
> >
>
> Well, when Family of album will be stored in database (it's not yet the case
> in KDE4), it will be a (single) tag for albums. We will be able to use
> Family property in Search tool.

Sure, but it is an additional concept, where
the well-known tags (might) do the job as well (and
maybe even more flexible because of the possibility to have several
tags associated with one album)...

Best, Arnd