[Digikam-users] Does no one ever want "custom order" in an album?

[Dennis Meulensteen]

Op Tuesday 02 September 2008, schreef Chris G:
> Yet again I have come up against this problem.  :-)   It really
> surprises me that no one else seems to want to be able to do this sort
> of thing (not just Digikam, I can't find anything else that does it
> either).
There's a bug (feature request) open for this. 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91562

>
> I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from
> various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a
> specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric
> file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
>
> *Surely* people want to be able to do this.  Currently in my case it's
> simply because I have taken two sets of photographs of the same trip,
> one lot in one direction and the other lot in the opposite direction.
> I want to collate a set of pictures of the trip in 'geographic' order
> from the best images selected from the two albums.  I can't find any
> way of doing this apart from laboriously renaming each image as I
> select it and even then if I change my mind I've got a horrible
> re-ordering problem again.
I know Imatch does it, but that is Windows only.. I obtained mixed results 
under Wine, initially promising, but too unpredictable in the long run.

Dennis