Bug 119075

I think this will be a feature not used by many people. Most people who want to download to a folder based on exif-data or create a folder with a custom name, which you can do as well of course. imho wontfix.

O.K. 
It would be nice especially if you have photos to download taken over many days but with only one or two photos per day but it's not a big deal. Using the default date & not using the 'automatically create subfolders' achieves the same result except that the date is then in long format & will be out of sequence with the automatically created subfolders when sorted alphabetically. 
Perhaps there could be a format option for this the default date which would achieve the same thing?

SVN commit 576672 by cgilles:

digikam from trunk : camera gui improvements : new option to set configurable date format for auto album creation.

BUG: 119075, 128817

 M  +68 -13    cameraui.cpp  


--- trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/utilities/cameragui/cameraui.cpp #576671:576672
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@
 {
 public:
 
+    enum DateFormatOptions
+    {
+        IsoDateFormat=0,
+        TextDateFormat,
+        LocalDateFormat
+    };
+
     CameraUIPriv()
     {
         busy              = false;
@@ -137,6 +144,8 @@
         losslessFormat    = 0;
         convertJpegCheck  = 0;
         formatLabel       = 0;
+        folderDateLabel   = 0;
+        folderDateFormat  = 0;
     }
 
     bool                          busy;
@@ -162,8 +171,10 @@
     QCheckBox                    *convertJpegCheck;
 
     QLabel                       *formatLabel;
+    QLabel                       *folderDateLabel;
 
     QComboBox                    *losslessFormat;
+    QComboBox                    *folderDateFormat;
 
     QSplitter                    *splitter;
 
@@ -233,9 +244,19 @@
     d->renameCustomizer  = new RenameCustomizer(d->advBox);
     d->view->setRenameCustomizer(d->renameCustomizer);
         
+    // -- Albums Auto-creation options -----------------------------------------
+
     QVGroupBox* albumBox = new QVGroupBox(i18n("Auto-creation of Albums"), d->advBox);
     d->autoAlbumCheck    = new QCheckBox(i18n("Date-based sub-albums"), albumBox);
+    QHBox *hbox1         = new QHBox(albumBox);
+    d->folderDateLabel   = new QLabel(i18n("Date format:"), hbox1);
+    d->folderDateFormat  = new QComboBox(hbox1);
+    d->folderDateFormat->insertItem(i18n("ISO"),             CameraUIPriv::IsoDateFormat);
+    d->folderDateFormat->insertItem(i18n("Full Text"),       CameraUIPriv::TextDateFormat);
+    d->folderDateFormat->insertItem(i18n("Local Settings"),  CameraUIPriv::LocalDateFormat);
 
+    // -- On the Fly options ---------------------------------------------------
+
     QVGroupBox* onFlyBox = new QVGroupBox(i18n("On the Fly Operations (JPEG only)"), d->advBox);
     d->setPhotographerId = new QCheckBox(i18n("Set default photographer identity"), onFlyBox);
     d->setCredits        = new QCheckBox(i18n("Set default credit and copyright"), onFlyBox);
@@ -243,9 +264,9 @@
     d->dateTimeEdit      = new KDateTimeEdit(onFlyBox, "datepicker");
     d->autoRotateCheck   = new QCheckBox(i18n("Auto-rotate/flip image"), onFlyBox);
     d->convertJpegCheck  = new QCheckBox(i18n("Convert to lossless file format"), onFlyBox);
-    QHBox *hbox          = new QHBox(onFlyBox);
-    d->formatLabel       = new QLabel(i18n("New image format:"), hbox);
-    d->losslessFormat    = new QComboBox(hbox);
+    QHBox *hbox2         = new QHBox(onFlyBox);
+    d->formatLabel       = new QLabel(i18n("New image format:"), hbox2);
+    d->losslessFormat    = new QComboBox(hbox2);
     d->losslessFormat->insertItem("PNG", 0);
     
     QWhatsThis::add( d->autoRotateCheck, i18n("<p>Toogle on this option if you want automatically "
@@ -362,6 +383,12 @@
 
     // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
+    connect(d->autoAlbumCheck, SIGNAL(toggled(bool)),
+            d->folderDateFormat, SLOT(setEnabled(bool)));
+
+    connect(d->autoAlbumCheck, SIGNAL(toggled(bool)),
+            d->folderDateLabel, SLOT(setEnabled(bool)));
+
     connect(d->convertJpegCheck, SIGNAL(toggled(bool)),
             d->losslessFormat, SLOT(setEnabled(bool)));
 
@@ -492,6 +519,7 @@
     d->setCredits->setChecked(config->readBoolEntry("SetCredits", false));
     d->convertJpegCheck->setChecked(config->readBoolEntry("ConvertJpeg", false));
     d->losslessFormat->setCurrentItem(config->readNumEntry("LossLessFormat", 0));   // PNG by default
+    d->folderDateFormat->setCurrentItem(config->readNumEntry("FolderDateFormat", CameraUIPriv::IsoDateFormat));
 
     d->view->setThumbnailSize(ThumbnailSize((ThumbnailSize::Size)config->readNumEntry("ThumbnailSize", 
                               ThumbnailSize::Large)));
@@ -502,6 +530,9 @@
     d->dateTimeEdit->setEnabled(d->fixDateTimeCheck->isChecked());
     d->losslessFormat->setEnabled(convertLosslessJpegFiles());
     d->formatLabel->setEnabled(convertLosslessJpegFiles());
+    d->folderDateFormat->setEnabled(d->autoAlbumCheck->isChecked());
+    d->folderDateLabel->setEnabled(d->autoAlbumCheck->isChecked());
+
     resize(configDialogSize("Camera Settings"));
 }
 
@@ -520,6 +551,7 @@
     config->writeEntry("LossLessFormat", d->losslessFormat->currentItem());
     config->writeEntry("ThumbnailSize", d->view->thumbnailSize().size());
     config->writeEntry("Splitter Sizes", d->splitter->sizes());
+    config->writeEntry("FolderDateFormat", d->folderDateFormat->currentItem());
     config->sync();
 }
 
@@ -964,12 +996,21 @@
     {
         CameraIconViewItem* iconItem = static_cast<CameraIconViewItem*>(firstItem);
         
-        QDateTime date;
-        date.setTime_t(iconItem->itemInfo()->mtime);
-        newDirName = QString("%1, %2, %3")
-                     .arg(KGlobal::locale()->calendar()->year(date.date()))
-                     .arg(KGlobal::locale()->calendar()->monthName(date.date()))
-                     .arg(KGlobal::locale()->calendar()->day(date.date()));
+        QDateTime dateTime;
+        dateTime.setTime_t(iconItem->itemInfo()->mtime);
+
+        switch(d->folderDateFormat->currentItem())
+        {
+            case CameraUIPriv::TextDateFormat:
+                newDirName = dateTime.date().toString(Qt::TextDate);
+                break;
+            case CameraUIPriv::LocalDateFormat:
+                newDirName = dateTime.date().toString(Qt::LocalDate);
+                break;
+            default:        // IsoDateFormat
+                newDirName = dateTime.date().toString(Qt::ISODate);
+                break;
+        }
     }
 
     album = AlbumSelectDialog::selectAlbum(this, (PAlbum*)album, header, newDirName,
@@ -1026,11 +1067,25 @@
         
         if (d->autoAlbumCheck->isChecked())
         {
-            QDateTime date;
-            date.setTime_t(mtime);
-            QString dirName(date.toString("yyyy-MM-dd"));
+            QDateTime dateTime;
+            dateTime.setTime_t(mtime);
+            QString dirName;;
+
+            switch(d->folderDateFormat->currentItem())
+            {
+                case CameraUIPriv::TextDateFormat:
+                    dirName = dateTime.date().toString(Qt::TextDate);
+                    break;
+                case CameraUIPriv::LocalDateFormat:
+                    dirName = dateTime.date().toString(Qt::LocalDate);
+                    break;
+                default:        // IsoDateFormat
+                    dirName = dateTime.date().toString(Qt::ISODate);
+                    break;
+            }
+
             QString errMsg;
-            if (!createAutoAlbum(url, dirName, date.date(), errMsg))
+            if (!createAutoAlbum(url, dirName, dateTime.date(), errMsg))
             {
                 KMessageBox::error(this, errMsg);
                 return;