[digiKam-users] Compilations

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Þann 7.6.2019 11:38, skrifaði Remco Viëtor:
> On jeudi 6 juin 2019 17:31:06 CEST pinasse wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Using digikam 6.1.0 I'm missing an essential feature of a DAM. I tend to
>> call this a 'virtual album' or 'collection', but since both phrases are
>> already in use in digikam let's call it a 'compilation'.
>>
>> This are the minimum requirements of such a feature:
>> - Compilations are virtual, no item is moved or copied
>> - A compilation may have an infinite amount of items assigned
>> - Any catalogued item may be assigned to any compilation
>> - A compilation may be assigned to any other compilation (sub-compilation).
>> - The sorting of a compilation is user defined (not on basis of any meta
>> data)
>> - Compilations are separated from other tags. It must not be mixed with any
>> other tag.
>> - A batch processor is needed to export the assigned items of a compilation
>> into a folder
>> - Items assigned to sub-compilations should be exported into sub-folders
>>
>> A compilation has it's own meta data:
>> - a name of course :-)
>> - the date of creation
>> - a state if it is finished
>> - the date(s) of exports
>> - the purposes of exports
>> - for multi user environments: name of maintainer of the compilation
>> - for multi user environments: name of maintainer of an export
>>
>> Does such a feature already exist in digikam; am I missing something?
> 
> Don't use disposable email addresses (like from domain byom.de) for feature
> requests, hard to get follow-up... Like: what's the practical use of the
> feature you request here (aka use-cases)

I think he means something like a 'playlist'; a list of files to process.

I for one, suggested many, many moons ago if it was possible to create 
such 'playlist' for slideshow purposes, ideally in a standardized 
XML-format, to be shared with image-viewers like Gwenview (and possibly 
others), preferably reorderable by drag-drop, etc. This kind of list 
could also be loaded into BQM, right?

There are similar requests, like in 
<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91562> and in older posts on this 
list (e.g. in "Re: [Digikam-users] how do you select images for slide 
show?" from 9.05.2013), but until now people have generally used tags to 
cicumvent the need for this.

Nevertheless; being able to obtain a list of selected images, even just 
to paste from clipboard, would be nice.

But in the end there's the coding part ;-(

Best,
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