[Digikam-users] Group by filename

[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.

For the rest, no problem...

Note :

- 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

- 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.

Gilles Caulier

2015-01-27 11:18 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com>:
> This is an absolutely brilliant feature! It looks pretty intuitive and
> straightforward in use. Great job, guys! Can't wait to see it rolled
> in to digiKam.
>
> Best,
> Dmitri
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mick Sulley <mick at sulley.info> wrote:
>> I have most of my pictures as .jog and .cr2  I have generally only tagged
>> the .jpg so it would be great if I could copy all metadata from .jpg to the
>> corresponding .cr2  Would this allow me to do that?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26/01/15 22:04, Ulf Rompe wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we would like to get some feedback on a patch we have been working on for
>> quite some time now. It introduces a configurable "group by filename" action
>> to the album view which lets you automatically combine files with matching
>> name parts into a group.
>> A filename based grouping feature is key for our workflow, and we could
>> imagine lots of use cases for other people's workflows. In fact, we found
>> the feature request we attached the patch to after implementing a first
>> version for our own purpose, so it seems there is at least some demand for
>> it.
>>
>> Find a short screencast of the current functionality here:
>> https://plus.google.com/107260423308980038020/posts/GgpPK27Y3fq
>>
>> As you can see, there are three configuration options:
>>
>> The default setting is set up to combine RAW and JPEG files. If you have
>> 123.nef and 123.jpg in your current selection, they will be grouped, leaving
>> 123.jpg on top.
>> The second option configures grouping of files featuring common appendices
>> added by well known image editors. If you have, for example, some of
>> 123.jpg, 123_v1.jpg, 123-Edit.jpg, 123_shotwell.jpg and "123 (edited).jpg"
>> in your current selection, they will be grouped.
>> The third option is for advanced users, giving you the option to manually
>> tweak the expression used for the matching. The editable pulldown is already
>> populated with the expressions used to realize the two options described
>> above as well as an example that implements our very own grouping logic.
>> Whatever you try here, the previous state will always be remembered and
>> accessible through the pulldown. Just fool around and see what happens.
>>
>>
>> Technically, this feature is implemented as a patch against digiKam core.
>> While we would have loved to implement it as a plugin, we didn't find a way
>> to hook a plugin into the album view and the context menu. The flexible
>> matching part is based on the popular regular expression syntax. Gilles, we
>> know you are not a fan of regular expressions, but we couldn't think of
>> another way to achieve a flexible matcher like this without overcomplicating
>> things. We just hope that if you would totally hate regular expressions you
>> would have closed the feature request #318357 before someone accepted the
>> challenge to work on it. Of course, the offer I made in my comment to the G+
>> post above still holds.
>>
>> While we consider the patch ready for prime time now, we would like to hear:
>>
>> Is the UI intuitive enough, especially from a KDE point of view?
>> Could you think of other predefined grouping options than the two introduced
>> above? Of course we would like to serve most users with easy defaults,
>> leaving the manual expression editing to power users.
>> Would it be realistic to get the feature into digiKam in the near future?
>>
>>
>> Best regards, Ulf
>>
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