[Digikam-users] linking instead of copying

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/1/5, Gerhard Kulzer <gerhardkgmx at gmail.com>:
>
> Am Friday 04 January 2008 schrieb Eddie Armstrong:
> > Eddie Armstrong wrote:
> > >> If you want to have all album virtual, well use only virtual
> folders..
> > >
> > > So whats wrong with links or aliases?
> >
> > I thought this might not make sense - what I meant was, delete a
> > reference to an object (a link) and have to delete the object itself
> > (the file/ directory) specifically.
> >
> > I don't think you should expose your files to the ambiguity of calling
> > actual 'directories' something else- it is easy to forget what an
> > 'album' is - especially when other programs - and the rest of the world
> > - uses this term differently.
> >
> > Eddie
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Gilles and Eddie,
> I propose to add a statement to the welcome page (Album root) that makes
> clear
> that Albums are a representation of folders. This is the page that is
> probably read by everyone starting to work with digiKam.
>
> "digiKam is a photo management program for the K Desktop Environment. It
> is
> designed to import, organize, improve and export your digital photographs
> on
> your computer.
> You are currently in the Album view mode of digiKam. The Albums are the
> real
> containers where your files are stored, they are identical with the
> folders
> on disk."


Fine for me Gerhard

Gilles
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