[KPhotoAlbum] order criteria for a family photo collection

[Michael J Gruber]

jedd venit, vidit, dixit 2007-02-06 12:33:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 3:20 am, Heinz Kohl wrote:
>  ] - 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 suspect part of the problem - outside of you wanting to use an
>  arbitrary sorting mechanism that few other people have need to
>  adopt - is that your most significant data, within the filename, is
>  located at the wrong end of the filename.
> 
>  From my observations, and from what Eugene has pointed out, if you
>  had the number at the start of your filenames it'd probably work
>  (or at least be easier to write scripts around the files in order to
>  make it work).
> 
>  ] - Without time there could be no sorting property founded in KPhotoalbum.
>  ] I think about some free order criteria which the potential of the time, at 
>  ] least to differentiate between the (more or less) dating part and the 
>  ] ordering part of the time with the possibility to connect these very 
>  ] different roles.
> 
>  I use lots of sorting properties other than time -- in fact, very
>  rarely do I care more about the time of a photo than I do about
>  where it was taken or who was in it.  That is -- my first sort order
>  or selection criteria is content rather than chronology, although my
>  second and third criteria typically is time.

I don't want to be nitpicking, but you're describing the fine /search/
capabilities which KPA has. This is very powerful and flexible, indeed.

The sorting, otoh, appears to be very limited: sort by date (ascending
or descending) and manual sort.

Michael