[Digikam-users] Multiple album roots - what's the point?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:30:11PM +0200, Anders Troberg wrote:
> Maybe you can't look at just one of them, but you should be able to separate them logically by making the hierarchy deeper. Example:
> 
> Instead of having:
> 
> Album_root_1/photofolder_1 
> Album_root_1/photofolder_2 
> ...
> Album_root_2/scanfolder_1 
> Album_root_2/scanfolder_2
> ...
> 
> you have:
> 
> Album_root_1/photos/photofolder_1 
> Album_root_1/photos/photofolder_2 
> ...
> Album_root_2/scans/scanfolder_1 
> Album_root_2/scans/scanfolder_2
> ...
> 
> That should put things in a nice hierarchy, somewhat like:
> 
> photos
>   photofolder_1
>   photofolder_2
>   ...
> scans
>   scanfolder_1
>   scanfolder_2
>   ...
> 
> Is that close enough?
> 
I could do that with the old digikam, nothing's new really.

As far as I can see the only change is that all the 'bits' (i.e.
albums) no longer have to be rooted at the same place.

What I want is the ability to be able to completely hide hierarchies
so they don't distract me from the current one.  I.e. if I used your
example when I'm looking at photofolder_1 there is still a top-level
scans folder which is always there wasting some space in the sidebar.


In my case if I'm dealing with my 'pictures' album I don't want to
have to see the other bits and pieces I have, e.g. :-

    forSale, Ebay, Freecycle, etc.
    Document scans, etc.
    Short term, temporary, etc.
    ...

As it is at present I'm *forced* to see these at the top level
alongside the albums which make up my 'Pictures', what I want to see
is just my year by year albums with no others wasting space.

> I've not tested this yet, so big disclaimer that I don't know for sure if it would give the desired result.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Chris G [mailto:cl at isbd.net] 
> Skickat: den 3 september 2009 23:49
> Till: digikam-users at kde.org
> Ämne: [Digikam-users] Multiple album roots - what's the point?
> 
> I though that the new facility of having multiple album roots in 0.10.x and 1.0.0 onwards would actually be useful but I *really* can't see what difference it makes.
> 
> The albums *still* appear all in the same hierarchy.  Surely what's needed is a way to start digikam on different albums with no conenction between them.
> 
> What I was hoping for was to be able to separate my collection of pictures (as in photograhs I have taken) from my collection of scanned documents - but I can't.  I still see my documents album/folder when I'm looking at my pictures and I still see my pictures album/folder when I'm looking at my documents.
> 
> I want a way to tell digikam to start up either with 'this' hierarchy of albums or with 'that' hierarchy of albums with no visibility of one from the other.
> 
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> Chris Green
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