[Digikam-users] Stackable images

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Gerhard,

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:

> G'evening,
>
> Reading the story about digikamDAM reminded me of a features which I wanted
> to request for some time. I never really knew how to describe it. This was
> until recently I read about the stackable photo's feature in photoshop?
> Bridge?
>
> Anyhow, the idea is that images with the same basename would present
> themselfs as a single image stack. They can share keywords, tags etc. as
> they are versions of the same image.
>
> An example:
> I download an image from my minolta as pict0001.mrw which I then load into
> my raw file converter and convert int pict0001.jpg. As I want to upload the
> image to photosig, usefilm etc. I create a version which has the right size
> and a frame which I name pict0001.online.jpg. As I would like to print it
> or to use it as a wallpaper I could also end up with a pict0001.20x30.jpg
> and a pict0001.wallpaper.jpg
>
> While this is just my way of naming things (and they are in a folder
> structure with some added logic) it shows at least my wish to handle all
> those versions as a single entity.
> As in this case it could be automated (images with the same basename are
> stacked) doing something alike manual could be beneficial for those with
> other naming scheme's.
>
> Before making it a real wish in the wish/bugbase I thought it would be a
> good idea to poll the opinions here first.

For me this would be a really important feature -
there are various usage scenarios, for groups of images.
This is discussed in this wish:
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121310

It would be good if you could add your comments there
so that your ideas don't get lost!

Once a grouping feature exists (will only
be realized with digikam >=0.10, because it
requires a change to the database), several
rules to automatically group images should be set up

Best, Arnd