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

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 12:36:27 GMT 2009


2009/1/2 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>

>  > > 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 .... ;-)
>
> Me neither. This is a very old concept but apparently still used by some.
>
> >
>
> > 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 ...)
>
> We did not touch the Albums and Tags tables for 0.10 because there is no
> urgent need for this. There are some wishes as the one you mentioned and we
> can look into that for the future, but we can live with the current
> situation quite well I think.
>
> > > > In KDE3, "Album Collection" term been used to sort album tree view by
>
> > > > defined type. It can be considerated a _single tag_ feature for
> albums.
>
> > > > Not that this data are not stored in database.
>
> > > >
>
> > > > In KDE4, i have used the term "Collections" to design "Root Album
>
> > > > Paths". The old KDE3 "Album Collection" concept still here but have
>
> > > > been renamed "Album Type" (in setup page only). I need to fix the
> rest
>
> > > > of digiKam strings using "Album Type", for ex in View/Sort Albums,
> "By
>
> > > > Collection" option still present.
>
> > > >
>
> > > > But i'm not sure if "Album Type" is the right term. Perhaps "Album
>
> > > > Family" is better. What do you think about ?
>
> > > >
>
> > > > Note : In KDE4, "Album Type" data still not stored in database ?
> Marcel
>
> > > > ?
>
> It is stored in the DB just as it was for KDE3, as the text field
> "collection" in the Albums table.
>
> Marcel
>
>
Yes, Album table as a properties named Collection (which must be renamed in
Database schema to be consistent with the rest), but the list of Collections
(Families) still stored in digikam.rc file.

Gilles
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