[Digikam-users] Re: How to make digikam show all images in a folder?

[Peter Shute]

Personally, I wouldn't dare keep two images with the "same" name, only distinguished by case. Perhaps Linux is consistent enough for this to be safe, but I would worry that sooner or later something would overwrite one of them. 

For example, are sqlite and mysql searches case sensitive? DB searches often aren't, and don't have to be part of any OS conventions.

However, it would be good if digiKam at least detected the situation and warned you.

Perhaps as a workaround you could divide them into a subfolder for each case.


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From: Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com>
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power	of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
Sent: Mon Mar 07 07:36:24 2011
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: How to make digikam show all images in a folder?

On Sunday 06 March 2011 21:02:30, Johannes Wienke wrote:
> Am 06.03.2011 20:58 schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> > I have an album with 75 *.JPG images, i import (using digikam
> > import-tool) other versions of the same images named *.jpg. They are
> > imported, I can see all images in dolphin, always one *.JPG and one
> > *.jpg, but digikam still only shows 75 images - some *.jpg and some
> > *JPG, a wild mix, I don't know if there is any system...
> 
> This would give an ugly name clash on windows, were case is ignored.
> Normally one should avoid such situations for portability reasons.
> 
> Still digikam could try to show both images and maintain them, there
> would be no portable way accross operating systems, which is a requirement.
> 
> Johannes

Do we now have to suffer from the restrictions of a stupid accumulation of 
program code that some people for unknown reasons call "operation systems"? 
Hey, except for W-users the world is not in MS-DOS times anymore, why go back 
to there?

I use the normal filename behaviour (a is not = A) very often, for example to 
have several versions of the same images listed side by side. 

I don't think linux should behave like this Wsomething. And even that "system" 
can distinguish capitalisation when it comes to passwords or internet-URLs 
(even msie will show a file not found if you enter "image.JPG" when it is 
named "image.jpg" on the server...). In fact I don't see a reason why I'd have 
to add a lot of work in renaming images (i.e. to *_version_x.jpg) just because 
one company isn't capable to understand the differences between characters...

I think digikam should stay a linux program using linux conventions. W-users 
are used to the fact that nothing works, so I think one should leave it up to 
them to name their files according to the restrictions of their "system". 

For me it is very very strange if one program suddenly doesn't understand my 
filenames anymore that are not problem at all on any operating system... I 
havn't seen this in any other program on linux...

Pkease re-think about this...

kind regards

Daniel


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