[Digikam-users] counting pictures in search results

[Arnd Baecker]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> Am Saturday 05 January 2008 schrieb Gandalf Lechner:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just tested the new feature counting images in albums and tags from the
> > svn version of digikam. I find it very helpful and it works mostly fine,
> > but I observed that it does not (yet?) count the results of stored searches
> > ("virtual albums"). Would be nice if we could have a count there, too.
>
> We had that already implemented Gandalf, but it turns out that due to the
> complexity the searches can take on, it resulted in too high a load on the
> computer. Even with my 3.2GHz Core 2 Duo it would take 8 seconds to
> recalculate the numbers every time you changed something. We therefore had to
> abandon the inclusion of searches.

Maybe one could (optionally) calculate that number
triggered by a mouse-over?
If this is done in the background this might not
slow-down things to much...

Best, Arnd