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

[Stefan Haag]

Am Dienstag 02 September 2008 schrieb Arnd Baecker:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, [ISO-8859-1] "Sveinn í Felli (IMAP)" wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Chris G wrote:
> > > 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!).
> >
> > Does tagging the pictures not work your way ? In tag view
> > only the pics porting a specific tag are shown, then ordered
> > by either name/path/date/size/rating.
>
> No, that is not enough: For slideshows (etc.) a custom ordering
> is needed. This ordering will be not chronologic, so
> sorting by date does not do the job.
Would it be possible to generate a playlist for slideshows (e.g. as 
music-player uses), which can be saved? This would also allow to show one 
picture more than one time (e.g. to show movements/differences (before, 
after, before, after...)).

regards
Stefan