[Digikam-users] More than one physical Album root?

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/2/4, Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
>
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:06:46AM +0100, Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> >
> > As I got a new Digital Kamera I am trying to get used to sort and manage
> > my pictures with digikam. I like its concept of doing this very much,
> > but I have one tiny question out there:
> >
> > I wonder if it is possible (I suppose not now actually) to have not one
> > but two physical Albums. While this looks like complicating stuff only
> > for providing a useless Feature, this would solve one kind of problem:
> >
> > There are images I would keep public while roswing and looking at them
> > with family and firends, there are other kind of pictures I would keep
> > private between me and my girlfriend. So these kind of pictures would
> > reside on a separate dm-crypted partition...
> >
> > Or is there any other tiny gimmick o overlooked which could solve such a
> > scenario most comfortable?
> >
> There's no *very* easy way of doing it but it can be done fairly
> simply.
>
> If you go into the digikam settings menu and go to the Album settings
> you can specify the directory which is the root of the digikam albums.
>
> You can change from one 'physical' Album to another by changing this
> setting.  You'll have to remember to change back from the girlfriend
> ones yourself though, digikam won't do it automatically or give you a
> reminder.
>
>
> (There are other ways of doing essentially the same thing by having a
> wrapper script which plays with the digikam configuration file but the
> above is the easiest way IMHO)



Unforget than digiKam 0.10 (KDE4) will support more than one root album path
at the same time (local and remote)...

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikamKDE4_15.png

Gilles Caulier
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