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

Martin (KDE) kde at fahrendorf.de
Mon May 24 09:29:37 BST 2010


Am Sonntag, 23. Mai 2010 schrieb Marcel Wiesweg:
> > > 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.
> 
> Done in SVN.

Does this affect sorting of raw and jpeg as well? I mostly store jpeg 
and raw side by side in the same folder. Sometimes raw pics are the 
first to show, sometimes jpeg (but may be I have not found the 
settings for this).

Martin



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