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

[Chris G]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:37:59PM +0200, Anders Troberg wrote:
> Ah, OK. For me, the multiple root is mostly a way to spread data over several disks, to avoid running out of space.
> 
I suppose it can do that but in this day and age of 1Tb disk drives
that isn't often necessary is it?


> May I suggest that you get a bigger screen? :) 
> 
My screen is quite big enough already!  :-)   It's a 20" running at
1600x1200. 

It's not really the *space* occupied by those extra albums but the
messiness and distraction.  Instead of just seeing the stuff I want
there are other bits which tend to appear at random because their
initial letters, not surprisingly, don't follow any useful logic.

Using directories/folders on my computer (rather than digikam) I'd
simply 'cd scans' and an 'ls' would just show me my scans albums with
no distraction.  Similarly 'cd documents' and 'ls' would show me my
documents directories and nothing else.  If I had web pages organised
in the same sort of hierarchy then I'd get the same sort of
separation. 

It *can* be done with digikam by wrapping a script around the startup
and using multiple digikamrc files but it's a bit of a bodge and it
doesn't seem as if it would be difficult to build it into digikam.

All that's needed is a comamnd line option to set the root album path.

> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Chris G [mailto:cl at isbd.net] 
> Skickat: den 4 september 2009 14:05
> Till: digikam-users at kde.org
> Ämne: Re: [Digikam-users] Multiple album roots - what's the point?
> 
> 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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