[Digikam-users] Re: Some thoughts about digiKam

[Renchi Raju]

i'm forwarding your email to the digikam users mailing list, which is the 
place to have discussions of this sort.

renchi

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Heiner Lamprecht wrote:

> Hello Renchi,
>
> I recently tested out digiKam and have some ideas for it. I was
> looking for some program to handle all my digital photographs
> (several thousands as for today, constantly growing ...).
>
> Even if it is a great program, there are some features missing:
>
> I've tested hierarchical categories, but the selection does not
> recognize this.  Let's say, I have two images "img1.jpg" and
> "img2.jpg" and the following structure of categories:
>
>  foo
>  foo/bar_1
>  foo/bar_2
>
> img1.jpg belongs to foo/bar_1, while img2.jpg belongs to foo/bar_2.
> When I select only "foo", no image is displayed at all :-(
>
> Is there a way to search for images?  Like defining some categories,
> dates, ... and see the result?
>
> Have you considered to make use of the IPTC-fields?  As far as I can
> see, one can only assign "categories" in digiKam.  But IPTC offers
> some more fields types, like a title, a genre, a location or
> copyright information.  That would make searching a lot more
> efficient.
>
> What I am looking for is a tool for organizing and archiving all my
> images.  In order to do this, it is essential to have unique names
> for all images and it would be great to let this be handled by an
> application.  In addition, it would be useful to have all images in
> two or three sizes.  My idea is to have an index of _all_ my images
> in some sort of "database" (meaning fully searchable, regardless of
> the actual way the information is stored), that displays thumbnails
> for browsing and maybe a larger preview.  But as the real image is
> too big, it might be on a CD.
>
>
> What do you think about these ideas?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>    Heiner
>
> BTW:  I have a wheel mouse.  When I use the wheel to scroll the
> thumbnails, it is a lot faster (with less CPU usage), when the
> mouse is over the scrollbar, than over the thumbnail area.
>
> -- 
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