[digiKam-users] Dynamic albums

[Ty Mayn]

It remains to be seen whether there is a mandate for dynamic links. For
those interested Maik Qualmann described a work around using symlinks that
could behave like a scratchpad dynamic album for sorting and recall into
the MainViewer for modules such as slideshow.
Find that description at the bug post:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449968
 I have failed to accomplish the described steps and need help.  It
involves exporting symlinks to a target local directory and then pointing
an album to the same directory  where digikam should be able to process
those symlinks (and even tag them further) ....sort of a power of alternate
tagging and processing.  Problem: the target directory is included in
albums (by name in sidebar) and by entry in digikam4 database. BUT I only
have "0" images recognized. I have 1 placed symlinks created in system
filemanager and 2 symlinks exported from a digikam selection (symlinks from
system are over twice the file size of the digikam generated symlinks
-wonder why?)   I exported as regular not "relative"symlinks (and I am not
sure how a relative symlink would be more discoverable; I have done refresh
multiple times.
   Help appreciated as this sounds like a powerful sorting and processing
method
TyMayn



On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:49 PM Ty Mayn <tyrus.mayn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I visited the  bug/improve post and left some comments naming a few
> possible features. I realize the existing tagging engine satisfies some of
> the features and digikam is many virtual collections filtered by metadata
> like tags.  But I would like to see the tag(s) for Virtual albums separated
> from the TagManager , operating in its own namespace and having some
> different contextual actions from the MainThmbnailViewer
>    Ty Mayn
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:03 PM Johan Kemnitz <johan.kemnitz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Created a feature request on kde bugs for this:
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449968
>>
>> No idea if category etc. is right, happy to amend. Thanks Gilles & team
>> for considering!
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 1:01 AM Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On dimanche 6 février 2022 23:06:25 CET Ty Mayn wrote:
>>> (...)
>>> > Ty Mayn
>>> TL;DR
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