[Digikam-users] Sort order of images with same timestamp

Marcel Wiesweg marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de
Sun May 23 20:07:49 BST 2010


> 
> I allways view my images in albums sorted by timestamp. Yesterday I
> took quite a lot of images during a foball game. Some of the images
> are in series, and they have the same timestamp. Now in Digikam the
> sorting of these images with same timestamp is chaotic, one can say. I
> have never thought of this before, but it was obvoius now when a
> sequence of running people are out of order.
> 
> I could choose to view the images sorted by name in this case, but
> sometimes I have images from different cameras in the same album.
> Hence the images might have different namimg conventions, and the
> images are not in timely order which I like to have.
> 
> Is it possible to sort by timestamp and then by image name, if same
> timestamp? Might be a feature request?

Yes you are right, looking at the code, the sorting of images with identical 
timestamp is undefined. We can fix this.

Marcel



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