[digiKam-users] Tags order underneath thumbs, and QtAv still stutters

[Boz Avram]

A big thank you to the Dev team for the continuous improvements made to DK. I am currently on DK 7.1, Win 10. I have a question and an observation/plea. 
1) My tags are in a hierarchy, e.g. Date; Place; People, and each branch further breaks, e.g. for Places, into Paris, London, Bon, etc.; similarly for other branches. In the thumbsview my selected tags get mixed up so that a Place tag gets somewhere within the People tags. Ideally, I’d like to have all selected tags for Date (movies can have more than one date) be listed before any Place tag(s), which in turn should come before any People tags. Adding number prefixes to lower level branches and leaves to force a particular order is not a practical solution. I have not been able to find a way to accomplish the desired sequencing. Is it possible?

2) My movies still play with a stutter (play, then pause as if to fetch the next chunk, with this process repeating every ten seconds, or so). I am not seeing a perceptible difference in this behavior between v7.1 and the 6.x versions. In the last year I have installed a whole bunch of open source and commercial products for viewing, editing and managing movies (including ffmpeg, VirtualDub, VLC, etc.), and they all play all my movies without a problem. So, it seems, QtAv still needs some work. I am hoping for an improvement in that area. Even though the feature may not matter to those that only manage photographs, I can’t imagine that I am the only one who comes back from a vacation with a mix of photos and movies. And using a powerful platform to manage both seamlessly is a big plus, IMHO. 
 —Boz.

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