[Digikam-users] Organizing mode

[Simon Oosthoek]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Right now Digikam has two modes: Viewing and Editing. It seems to me
> that there actually needs to be a third mode, Organizing, which would
> have less emphasis on things like zooming and panning but would have
> more emphasis on tagging, deleting, grouping (see bug #121310), filing
> into albums, and making little touchups like redeye removal. I find
> that the first time I go through new photos from the camera, I am
> organizing them and need these features to be readily available.
> However, the future times that I go through the photos my emphasis is
> on enjoying the photos, not on organizing them.
>
> What do you think?
>
>   

I agree that it would be useful to have more flexible organising 
capabilities in digikam, since it already is/appears to be a photo 
management tool, I think it would already help a lot if digikam could 
handle multiple selections in the directory/album tree for moving them 
around.

Since digikam relies a lot on storing stuff in a database (tags and 
metadata), with this comes the burden of re-implementing common 
filesystem tools in an accessible manner. (Unless Nepomuk is going to be 
handling the database, but I don't like nepomuk)

I'd also like group renaming for directories and such. More intelligent 
matching of RAW files to their JPEG counterparts, or any image and their 
derivatives (done by digikam or an external program like the gimp).

Cheers

PS, off-topic, but I noticed that a lot of messages here go unanswered, 
I don't think that's a good sign!