[digikam] [Bug 380378] Option to automatically group photos

[Simon]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380378

Simon <freisim93 at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|5.4.0                       |5.6.0
                 CC|                            |freisim93 at gmail.com

--- Comment #3 from Simon <freisim93 at gmail.com> ---
My recent changes to grouping don't really address this problem.

Automatic grouping: Could be a thing. A config option to group automatically by
time or filename. To still also allow manual groups as well, we would either
need subgrouping (that would probably open Pandora's Box) or just combine
automatically and manually grouped items. I would like that, but don't see it
happening (by me) anytime soon.

I pondered the idea of integrating versioning and grouping as well - but gave
up on it due to lack of understanding and interest. I personally use digiKam
almost exclusively as DAM, so the only image manipulation I do is e.g.
scaling&sharpening in BQM for publication. Point I am trying to make: I don't
really know the versioning feature.

What is displayed regarding versioning is set in configuration -> Image Editor
-> Versioning -> In main view -> Always show... So I assume you could select
both checkboxes, then manually use grouping on versions. That could maybe be
unified with grouping by giving another option: Group versions together. As you
noted, I am too probably not aware of problems regarding this approach. And
there is this report about this functionality:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338882

And I think versioning is only available through the editor, not through the
batch queue manager. I might be wrong however. This bug report is probably
related:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375024

So lets keep this report about automatical grouping and potentially use the
linked reports or new ones for the versioning problems. I feel like versioning
on its own needs some real attention to get it right (again?).

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