[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 320663] Virtual folders / arbitrary sets in Digikam

[shaav at shaav.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320663

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--- Comment #3 from shaav at shaav.com ---
As described, I don't see any difference between tags / labels HOWEVER my
intuition (and what I would find extremely useful) is that Niels means that the
"virtual album" would have an actual presence on the file system. I.e. it would
be a real folder with only symbolic links in it.  This is what I do manually to
assemble albums for a variety of purposes (including choosing what syncs to my
iPad).

I have seen allusions to being able to this manually by dragging and dropping
to the file manager with ctrl-shift to create links rather than move/copy.
However, (I'm on Linux Mint/Gnome) that doesn't work on my setup either with
Nautilus or Dolphin. Not sure why...

Creating the symlinks manually, isn't that big of a deal when it's 5 of 1000
pictures like Niels suggested, but when it's 250 of a 1000 pictures from your
recent holiday... it's more of a pain if there's no way to filter the selection
in the file system rather than digiKam.

The more exciting possibility is creating "smart" virtual albums that
automatically update (something like dynamic playlists); You create the album,
set the criteria (like an advanced search) like "Pictures rated 5 stars taken
in the last year" or "Pictures in this album rated >=3" or "All pictures tagged
with TagA and TagB" and it is automatically updated as images are
added/removed.

Perhaps a simple implementation would be a "Saved Search" with two additional
options: write  the results as symlinks in a selected folder and run search on
start-up/shut-down.

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