Bug 125790

Summary: Dates View : new option to show items without date information taken from metadata (as taken from file time-stamp)
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Mario Hein <MHein03>
Component: Searches-DatesAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: acallaway1957, caulier.gilles, iwannaberich, johannes.schwenk
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.8.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mario Hein 2006-04-18 09:24:43 UTC 
Version:           0.8.1 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

There are usually three kinds of pictures:

- Pictures with date tags in EXIF information
- Pictures with EXIF infomations, but no date tags (not set by camera --> set to 00/00/0000 00:00 for example)
- Pictures wihout EXIF informations

The first type will be the most common. But what to do for the other types?
Currently, the Pictures will be sorted by creation time stamp of the file. (And so they get mixed-up with other pictures with correct date tags in EXIF infos)
But in my opinion, they should be shown under an extra folder in the calender view named 'without date information' or so.... and there you could sort them by date, name,...

There is also a wish to add EXIF date tags in the wishlist. Could be a good combination...

Best regards,

Mario
Comment 1 Simon Oosthoek 2008-01-13 16:46:27 UTC 
I agree, these files are not logically "dateable", so they should be disregarded by the date sort order.
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2008-01-13 17:32:41 UTC 
0.9.4 will be the fine release to review Date Search Tool. 

Note: A new TimeLine is under construction: 

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/timelineconcept2.png

Gilles Caulier
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2011-12-13 12:49:17 UTC 
Mario,

This file still valid with 2.x release ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2014-08-23 11:27:11 UTC 
*** Bug 315247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Johannes Schwenk 2015-01-14 16:58:54 UTC 
Hi! I think being able to sort in as many different ways as possible gives you a lot of additional control over your collection. Are there any plans to implement this?