[Digikam-users] Group by filename

[cl at isbd.net]

Ulf Rompe <kde.org at rompe.org> wrote:
> 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.

It depends which users!  :-)   I find non-RE searches confuse me
because they tend to be all different so don't work in a way that I
understand until I have learnt yet another syntax.

> 
> 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
> 
Personally I use the directory structure to do this, i.e. I have top
level folders for decades (possibly superfluous), then years, months
and days, so a file with pictures taken today will be found at:-

    ~/2010s/2015/02/01/something.jpg

Why reinvent the wheel? The operating system developers have been
continuously improving file & directory management systems for far
longer than digikam has been around.  Plus I have already learnt the
OS way of doing it, having to learn another is just wasted time.

-- 
Chris Green
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