[KPhotoAlbum] Breaking changes in file layout

[Robert Krawitz]

On Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:30:26 +0200, Tobias Leupold wrote:
> Am Montag, 6. April 2020, 15:57:03 CEST schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>> There's no perfect solution to the fact that slashes can't be filename
>> components, but I don't think this really has to be absolutely
>> perfect.
>
> What about one of the two middle way solutions I proposed?

If you're going to include both the hash and the path, why include the
hash at all?

>> > This one could actually be hidden by a leading dot imo, like
>> > "DBDIR/.CategoryImages/"
>>
>> Or moved to XDG_CACHE_DIR/kphotoalbum/<db>/CategoryImages?
>
> I think Johannes considers the CategoryImages an integral part of the database
> (which is probably correct), so it should reside where index.xml is.

Should it be part of the index.xml file proper?
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