[KPhotoAlbum] order criteria for a family photo collection

[Eugene Nine]

On Monday 05 February 2007 11:20, Heinz Kohl wrote:
> Building up and maintaining my collection of rather young historical photos
> - nearly all are taken later than 1900! - I was seeking a Photoalbum and
> was finding some better, some less good, but none which was perfect for my
> issues.
>
> KPhotoalbum seems to have the upmost manipulation potential, but some
> ordering and handling restrictions:
>
> - the time is an ordering criterium which is giving some very partial
> ordering, and to get the best possible time ordering, more than one more
> clearly defined additional order criterium is necessary
>
> - A main collecting criterium of me is the scan number of the photo.
>   I've maintained it as part of the file name (e.g. scan 2147 could be
> grandfather-2147.jpg, WorldWar-I-Italy-2147.jpg and XMas-2147.jpg)
>   It should be possible to seek and sort for this collection criterium.

I've scanned a lot of pictures and given them sequential numbers KPA sorts by 
that.  I give them just a number and leave the description for the EXIF 
Description field.  So your example I would use 2147.jpg, 2148.jpg, 2149.jpg, 
etc and it sorts them fine.