[digiKam-users] Free floating albums list possible - or alternatively duplicate DK windows?

[Thomas]

On 2022-08-08 15:27, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On lundi 8 août 2022 14:24:39 CEST Thomas wrote:
>> Yeah, using stuff like flags, labels and stars only work inside DK so
>> will not integrate with other tools. Thus, this is not an option. I will
>> have to rely on good old folders...
> Can you have at the same time both an album
> '/photos/<year>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name>' and an album
> '/photos/<year>/in/<yyyy-mm-dd>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name>'


Yes, the same album might exist in both the staging area as well as in 
the actual collection. This occurs when some photos are finalized and 
put in the collection while some pictures in the same album for some 
reason cannot be finalized yet.



> If not, the easiest solution might be to just rename the album from within
> Digikam when processing is finished. That should move the album to its proper
> place in the hierarchy (an album rename in digikam should translate to a
> directory rename in the filesystem).


Do you propose I rename from 
'/photos/<year>/in/<yyyy-mm-dd>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name>' to 
'/photos/<year>/<yyyy-mm-dd>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<album-name>' ? I.e., move the 
folder by a rename operation in DK?

If so, I am not sure how to do that. When right clicking an album and 
clicking Rename, I will seemingly only be allowed to change the folder 
name - not its place in the folder hierarchy (path).



> If that still means you have to move dozens of albums at the time, there's
> something funny in your workflow, or you're part of a team and responsable for
> the final disposition. The numbers also seem to indicate at a group effort
> ("thousands of photos", "dozens of albums" from one download...). Nothing
> wrong with that, but I think most here think as a single photographer, with
> 1-3 sessions/day maximum. And I think that's the situation for which digikam
> is developed.


I am part of a group in that I am part of a single household in which we 
all shoot a fair amount of pictures using both various dSLR cameras as 
well as mobile phones. We will typically only import photos from these 
devices weekly or sometimes even more infrequently. Thus, it is not 
uncommon that there are thousands of photos on the devices.

I currently have well over 3k photos in 'in' folder at this moment 
waiting to be sorted.

The sort process might take a few days.

When we have been traveling several thousand photos are not uncommon.


Anyway, I think both able to either allow multiple digikam windows or 
being able to detach the album list will greatly enhance the ergonomics 
of my workflow as well as provide flexibility for everyone to improve 
theirs.


Can anyone point me to where to file this as a feature request? I am not 
sure what component this goes to?



-- 
Mvh
Thomas