[digiKam-users] Suggestion for improving filtering view

[digikam at 911networks.com]

Hi,

What I'd like and would find useful is to be able to filter for some
text in the album view. 

Just like in the search tab, just a search box to limit/filter by a
string for example:

photo-yyyymmdd-9999.cr2 and I could type mmdd and it would filter by
mmdd.

Often, I'm looking for a specific photo, I know the number and I
don't want to scroll the 1000 or so images to reach it, but I also
want to see the neighbours to select which one to get.

Thanks

Syv

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:39:30 +0100
Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> On mardi 26 mars 2019 09:07:49 CET squeak wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Thank you for making digikam, it's a great software :)
> > I saw on digikam github page that this email is a good place for
> > suggestions, so here is one little thing:
> > 
> > With the filters panel, you can filter the images you see, by
> > tag, flag, rating... If you select multiple tags you can chose
> > AND or OR to sort images tagged with all the selected tags or one
> > of them. It would be really cool to add a NOT system, that would
> > show only images that are not tagged with the selected tags (it
> > could also have more fine grain and be NOR, NAND).
> > This would be quite useful to exclude some pictures from the view.
> > The same would be really nice for flags as well, and maybe
> > colors. You could then for example choose to see only pictures
> > that are not flagged red (without having to select, green, orange
> > and no flag). 
> 
> What you want is already available in the advanced search dialog,
> where you can save a search for later re-use.
> 
> Implementing it in the filter tab might have some unexpected
> effects: in the case of multiple selected tags, do you want 
> NOT (tag1 OR tag2 OR tag3) or
> (NOT tag1) OR (NOT tag2) OR (NOT tag3);
> same question with AND instead of OR.
> 
> While it may be handy for some simple cases, very quickly the
> effects might not be at all what you want. Or the tab gets a lot
> more complicated.
> 
> That said, it might be handy to have a NOT option for the colour
> flags, depending on how you use them.
> 
> Remco
> 
> 
> 
> 


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