[digiKam-users] How to set custom icons or colors for album list compact view

[Thomas]

Hi Gilles,


Thank you for a quick response!

I have tried this, and got two problems:

1) it does not seem to work. I believe this is due to the fact that I 
use small icons in the Albums list. For some reason the album thumbnails 
are not shown when the albums list uses small icons... I hope this is 
just an error and will be fixed. Not sure how to report it, though?


2) This approach seems to only allow me to define an icon for an album 
if that icon if from a photo that is directly inside that album. I 
really do not like this limitation. For example, I could have an album 
called Germany in which I would have several subalbums from Germany. The 
main album I would like to have an icon of the German flag. But I do not 
have any photos immediately inside the Germany album.


Example of what I mean: Consider this dir listing:

/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany
/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany/2022-07-02-berlin
/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany/2022-07-02-berlin/img_441.jpg
/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany/2022-07-02-berlin/img_447.jpg
/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany/2022-07-02-hamburg
/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany/2022-07-02-hamburg/img_495.jpg
/photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany/2022-07-02-hamburg/img_498.jpg


I want the icon/thumbnail of /photos/2022/2022-07-02-germany to be a 
German flag. But this folder has zero photos directly in it.


BR

Thomas







On 2022-08-08 12:22, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Look the context menu:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/tzSGrvg.png
>
> You can also drag and drop between icon view and album tree-view.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le lun. 8 août 2022 à 12:02, Thomas <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>     Hi,
>
>
>     I typically have my digikam album list in this compact view using
>     small icons. See screenshot below.
>
>     The list is long and I would love to be able to either define
>     custom icons for the albums or alternatively at least define
>     custom colors for the album icons. This way I can make the few
>     albums I am currently working on stand out in the list. However, I
>     have not been able to find where this is done. Maybe it is not
>     possible?
>
>     If it is not currently possible to do this in the GUI, would it be
>     feasible to implement? I think it would be as very similar
>     functionality already exists for People list and Tags list. Would
>     you consider implementing this?
>
>     If this is already implemented, I hope someone will advise on how
>     to do this.
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Mvh
>     Thomas
>
-- 
Mvh
Thomas
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