Coming from Picasa Desktop - help

[Noeck]

I think you misunderstood me. By primary I meant the kind of sorting
that is the most visible outside Digikam on the file system. Yes, tags
stored in files are nice, but I meant the file system because that's the
important part for my external backup strategy, for external scripts and
in case I switch a computer or hard drive. I want to know where a file is.

Of course, Digikam can do different 'primary' sortings. On the left
side, there are several types of sorting that can be further filtered on
the right.

> are supposed to be used.  It is how I use many of them today, yet still find
> ... insufficient.  Primary Reason: In digikam you can do things with albums
> that you can not do with tags.  These include things like sorting,
> counting/displaying the number of images in the album, etc...    

I don't get that. On the left side pane, the second entry below the
albums, I see that: Tags that are sorted just like albums
(alphabetically), you can have a hierarchy, the number of images per tag
are listed in brackets. And in the menu you have a tag management.

The other reasons are quite personal, I don't use colors much, for instance.

> There is already the concept of a virtual album, but it is only through a
> search.  

What do you mean by search? On the left pane you can select tags just
like albums. I see no difference there. On the right you can filter for
further criteria.

Cheers,
Joram