[KPhotoAlbum] order criteria for a family photo collection
Michael J Gruber
michaeljgruber+gmane+kimdaba at fastmail.fm
Tue Feb 6 17:06:54 GMT 2007
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
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