[KPhotoAlbum] Hierarchical Tags -- question, "wish list", and invoke external program

[Murray Strome]

I am currently using KPhotoAlbum 3.1.1 using KDE 3.5.9 running Kubuntu 8.04, "Hardy Heron".

1.  If I have an hierarchical structure on my tags and I decide that I should have had another layer between two of these, how can I go about creating one?

For example, suppose I have the following structure:

Category: 
Animals
   Pets
      Dogs
      Cats
      Horses
   Wild Animals
      Birds
          Owls
          Eagles
          Macaws
       Elephants
       Tigers
       Zebras
       Wolves

and I decide that I should have created a sub-category of "Wild Animals" as "Mammals" with "Elephants", "Tigers", "Zebras" and "Wolves" as sub-categories. The structure would then be:
Category: 

Animals

   Pets

      Dogs

      Cats

      Horses

   Wild Animals

      Birds

          Owls

          Eagles

          Macaws
      Mammals

          Elephants

          Tigers

          Zebras

          Wolves

Is there an easy way to do this, "after the fact", so that all the photos I have already annotated get the new structure for annotation?

2. "Wish List"

In the above example, I would really like the category selection to be such that if I annotate an image, using the above example, as "Owls", it would automatically also select all the "parents", e.g. "Birds", "Wild Animals", "Animals". As it seems to work now, I have to manually select all the parent categories as well as the bottom sub-category. Unfortunately, I am prone to forget to also select the "parents".

3. Invoke external program
I have already reported to Jan that when I try to invoke an external program, I get a little pull down menu which supposedly gives me a choice of "Current Item" and "All selected items", but clicking on either of these gives no response. I have now discovered that this seems to happen ONLY if the original image is RAW (in my case, Pentax ".pef").  If I do this for a .jpg image, it does give me some programs to chose from.   This leads me to another "wish list": I would really prefer to have the extensions shown for the files. As it is now, when I see an image in the thumbnails, or if I try to work with it, I have no idea as to whether it is RAW (.pef), .jpg, .tif or whatever.  It would be especially helpful to know if it is RAW.

I think KPhotoAlbum is VERY close to meeting my desired photo organization requirements, and I thank all the developers for their efforts in providing such a useful package.

Murray







      
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