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

[Miika Turkia]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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?

Yep, you get to choose what to do with images that already belong to a
stack (unstack, include in stack or skip stacking the new one). BTW
this applies to selected images so you can select e.g. only some new
images to be stacked and not risk the old stacks to be messed up.

miika