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

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> 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)

Another option is to add another user (e.g "privateimages") to your system
and set the rights accordingly.

See also this related wish
  http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150531
  "Hidden tag to password-protect particular pictures"

Best, Arnd