[KPhotoAlbum] Maintenance file version detection (was: Raw workflow)

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 11:04:17 +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
> Now there is a "new" feature to automatically stack different
> versions of an image. To be found under Maintenance->Automatically
> Stack Selected Images...
>
> The new option is "Stack images based on file version detection" and it
> allows one to choose that original file should be on top. Otherwise a
> random non-original is placed on top (I suppose it is first in alphabetical
> or whatever the internal order of files in KPA is).
>
> You can affect what is considered as original by the order of "Original
> replacement text" under the File Version Detection Settings. The first
> match is considered original. Thus having RAW formats first would treat
> RAW as original, and JPEG first the JPEG as original.
>
> This is quite similar to what is done when searching for new images and
> autostacking them, except that with new images the new one is placed on
> top. (Using stacking under Maintenance menu does not require you to use
> autostacking for new versions.)
>
> According to my limited testing this works but I would not be
> surprised if there were some bugs in the code. Note that the file
> version regexp and original text do affect quite a bit to the
> outcome...

Sounds like a very good start.  More use cases will come out as people
work with it.

Is it possible to restack images this way?
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