[Digikam-users] slideshow screensaver from starred pics in digikam?

[John Stumbles]

My kde screensaver is a a slideshow, configured to show photographs from 
a directory tree of a selected set of my better photographs. I populate 
this tree manually by hard linking photographs from the tree where I 
store all my pictures to the slideshow heirarchy,
e.g. cp -rl ~/pix/2012/20120429_some_description ~/pix/show
and then edit the directory under ~/pix/show, deleting the unwanted images.

Since I am beginning to use digikam for rating my photographs with stars 
I would like to be able to include all images rated, say, **** and above 
in my screen-saver slideshow.

With 'Tags filter' I can select the photos I want, and with 'Export to 
remote computer' I can make copies in a directory under ~/pix/show. 
Since these are copies rather than hard links I am using disk space I 
wouldn't need to use if I were making hard links, as I've been doing the 
old way. This will probably amount to a few tens of gigabytes which is 
not a huge issue but it would be nice to be as economical as possible.

I have looked at digitaglinktree which is similar to what I want but 
works on tags, not star ratings. I suppose I could try hacking on that 
but my Perl is very rusty :-(

Can anybody think of any other ways I could achieve this?

thanks

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John Stumbles                                    http://stumbles.org.uk
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