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

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Stefan,

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Stefan Haag wrote:

> 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...)).

Hmm, haven't thought about that use case ...

Using a playlist concept is another possible approach.

Could you please add a comment to:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91562

Thanks a lot, Arnd