Coming from Picasa Desktop - help

[Eduard Zalar]

I think this is a question of usability.

Of course, you can use tags to solve this issue.  But you could also use
tags for geo locating your pictures.
So why digiKam has a separate geo location functionality?
It is because most of us do not want to enter the latitude and longitude
values in meta data tags.
You can click on a map and digiKam ensures that the correct tags get the
correct values.

The same is the case with face/person tags.
It would be tedious to provide the necessary values in tags to mark a face
in the picture and associate it with the name of the person.
So digiKam has a specific UI to simplify the handling of person tags.
And it has a specific structure tag to group all persons together.

So, coming back to the "Virtual Albums", this would be a feature which
could avoid having knowledge about "album" tags.
It could just simplify the grouping of photos.
The disk folder contains the "original data".  All the pictures I have
taken.
But perhaps I want just some of them to send, other to present, and a union
of them to upload to a web album, etc.
"Virtual Albums" could help in grouping the necessary pictures without
having knowledge about how to use tags or even structured tags.

It's like having a presentation slide deck for different people - for the
management, for developers, etc.
Some slides are the same, but not all. But still I want to have all slides
in one presentation file because they all belong together.

OK, that are my thoughts about this topic.
Finally, the maintainers of digiKam have to decide if they want to
introduce such a feature or not.

Regards
Eddie



Noeck <noeck.marburg at gmx.de> schrieb am Mi., 19. Okt. 2016 um 22:08 Uhr:

> And if I used virtual albums instead of tags, I would still have to
> remember the name, wouldn't I?
>
> And yes, my folders (albums) are called like that: 2015-02_MyGreatParty
> Hence, no need for virtual albums as they are 'real' (folders).
>
> But in the end, my view is totally irrelevant, I am also just one
> Digikam user. I will drop out of this discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Joram
>
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