[digiKam-users] Hide albums, filters etc.

[Lukas Haase]

Hi Peter,

> Am 12.08.20 um 00:40 schrieb Lukas Haase:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just got into digiKam and I love it!
> >
> > There is just one thing that's so much missing that I find it hard to believe to not find it: Hiding/disabling of albums, ignoring albums/pictures etc.
> >
> > I only found a few old posts [1-2] on that but nothing substantial.
> >
> > I want to use digiKam for pretty much all pictures I have and this includes pictures for myself, pictures from my (extended) family and friends and then I would like to be able to use it to browse through pictures with other people. Depending on the person, I want certain items to not be visible.
> >
> > For "Albums", I added multiple collections such as Personal Pictures, and a network drive with shared fotos from family friends. For my own overview, I would like to disable for example the shared pictures when I am only interested in my own pictures.
> >
> > When I browse through the pictures with my family, I would like to remove my personal collection/albums.
> >
> > Finally, I would like to tag individual pictures in between as "private" that I can selectively disable.
> >
> > Am I just not finding this or is this really not possible?
>
> Why so much work?
>
> My picture archive consists of different folders,
> e.g "friends" "family" "private" "general",
>
> then sub-folders e.g general/2018/201803_whatever-you-like.

First: And how do you disable "private" from the timeline and map view when you browse through your stuff with a friend?

Second, if I could create a "virtual" hierarchy in digiKam and link different directories together, that could be helpful.
But I don't think this is possible, is it?
(No, bind mounts and symlinks are not an option; besides I use it on Windows)

Maybe I was not clear: I have *multiple* sources of pictures. Some are, say, my private pictures on my local machine, some my private pictures on a server, some of them are shared pictures on a server and some of them are even someone else's pictures on a network server (say, my Dads, my sister's).
All of them are used by different people and are stored in different locations.

I'd like to have all of those in digiKam because it allows great organization. It allows to look up things quickly for *myself* if I need it.
But most of the time, I do not want to have the ones I'm not interested in (say, my sister's or my dad's).
Most of the time, I want to disable the ones on a network drive (even if the network drive is accessible).

And of course, when I browse through the pictures with other people, I do not want everything to show up. Not even the names of sub-albums.
And when I browse through my timeline, I do NOT want pictures with my ex girlfriend to pop up.

> Then I use digikam's powerful extended search capabilities, and select
> exactly what I want.
>
> That is it.

This is not an option:

What makes digiKam so great is the ability to browse through collections using dates, the timeline or the map.
I would like to browse through my pictures with a friend and I do not want any pictures showing up that should not be seen!

When I browse through my collection(s) with my girlfriend, I do NOT want my ex-girlfriend to show up or the collections from my dad/sisters.

When I browse through my collection(s) with my family, I do NOT want pictures to show up where I am partying hard.

Always turning the screen away and saying "Wait, I quickly need to write a powerful extended search which only includes pictures you should see" is not an option.
And "sorry, don't click anywhere outside "Search"; I can't go with you over the timelie or map because you could see everything else" is not an option.

I do not unnecessarily want to look as if I have something to hide (which is not the case because none of my pictures are illegal or display inappropriate things) but it makes me feel comfortable when they just don't show up. (does that sound familiar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument)

"Hey, what's this Mallorca 2007 folder?". I want to avoid these kind of questions altogether.

I understand not everyone may need this but I don't think it's reasonable to argue the need away.

> Anyway, if I had pictures which are better kept private, I would store
> them definitely in a separate folder where they cannot accidentally be
> called up.

No.

1.) It makes no sense to fragment a photo collection. Pictures belonging to trip X shall stay in the album for trip X.
2.) What is private and what not depends on the person I am browsing through my pictures with


Best,
Lukas