[Digikam-users] Group by filename

[Ulf Rompe]

Hi Gilles,

please excuse my delayed answer! I have to task-switch a lot, so
anything related to digiKam mostly happens on monday.

Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2015, 11:56 +0100 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> As explained into G+ post, the patch is attached to this entry in bugzilla :
> 
>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318357
> 
> As i already said, I'm not favorable to include Regular Expression
> rules in digiKam GUI. It's not users friendly.

Of course we are open to ideas how to let advanced users configure a
customized matching without too much effort. For example, see our file
naming scheme. It includes a revision counter, so that all these files
must be grouped:

20150201-n024213-ur100.jpg
20150201-n024213-ur000.jpg
20150201-n024213-ur000.nef

We could mix this scheme into the default RAW+JPG expression. That would
satisfy our needs without destabilizing anything alse. But wouldn't it
be better if any power user could configure his own scheme? Does anybody
have an idea how to expose this functionality in another way?

> - KDE4 is frozen for new features. Only bugfixes will be introduced in
> code. This want mean that patch must be adapted to "frameworks" branch
> from git repository, where new features can be introduced. Details about digiKam
> framework branch can be found here :
> 
> https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2014

OK, I didn't know that. BTW I think reducing dependencies to plain Qt is
a great idea, even if I'm wondering what one would use to replace the
brilliant KHistoryComboBox in plain Qt.

> - Patch must be ported to pure Qt5. You must drop KDE API use. The
> plan is to limit KDE dependencies in digiKam later, in goal to make it
> more portable in the future.

We will start working on that branch tomorrow. Monday nights are
reserved for digiKam and beer.

Best regards,  Ulf