[digiKam-users] Hide empty folders in collections

[Stuart T Rogers]

On 19/11/2019 10:29, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Remco Viëtor wrote:
>> On lundi 18 novembre 2019 11:35:20 CET Dumelle, Timo (E+K) wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Since you managed to get digikam start in about 1 - 2 minutes instead of 3
>>> minutes with a 350000 pics mysql database, I gave it another try!
>>>
>>> I added a collection which basically is a folder on a share where word,
>>> excel, pdf, pictures and movies are dumped into project related subfolders
>>> In this collection there are many folders that don't contain digikam
>>> related stuff, so the folders are "empty" for digikam
>>>
>>> Is there an option to hide / ignore empty folders?
>>> I think that would add an extra on performance and would help to reduce
>>> confusion on my users
>>
>> The only way I see for Digikam to decide a folder is "empty", is to check the
>> folder contents, i.e. iterate over the files in the folder. That's what's
>> happening now as well to check for new files. So a "hide empties" option will
>> at best not add extra processing, and thus not help in start-up time.
>>
>> It might still be worthwhile, in order to simplify the interface. Then again,
>> *not* seeing folders you know are there can also be confusing, it all depends
>> on the users. E.g. I know that the albums in Digikam represent directories on
>> the disk, so not seeing some only because there are no images would be more
>> confusing for me.
> 
> Agreed. Imagine you have a folder which is yet still empty, but you are
> going to move some images there from within DK. How would you do that if
> you don't see the empty folder?
> 
> I think this is more like a question how documents and images are being
> managed. Probably it's easier to have a folder and subfolders with
> images only, and a different folder with subfolders for other documents.
> 
> Martin
> 
Having read through this thread I firmly believe that as Albums in 
digikam represent the directory structure this must ALWAYS display all 
folders in that structure whether containing digikam related data or 
not. Not displaying folders which are empty or have no image data will 
lead to problems and much confusion.

Stuart
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