[Digikam-users] Organizing mode

[Julien Narboux]

Simon Oosthoek a écrit :
> 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.
>   
Please add a wish in bko if there is not already one.
> 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 don't understand exactly what do you mean, which common filesystem 
tools do you need ?
> I'd also like group renaming for directories and such. 
Please add a wish in bko if there is not already one.
> 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).
>
>   
There is already a wish about that in bko.

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

I think the message was unanswered because it was a general idea, with 
no precise thought about what to be done. If we are more precise we can 
start discussing the possible guis, and what people like and what people 
do not like.

Cheers,

Julien
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