Bug 180035

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Greetings,

First of all, congratulations and thanks for the KDE4 port of digikam for being totally awesome :)

I would like to request the following feature: when you use the advanced search window, you can select to search within particular albums. I feel it would be very useful (at least for my use case) if you could similarly search within results of other searches as well. I am not sure if digikam uses SQL, but I imagine something like SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM ... WHERE ... ) WHERE ... . My instinct tells me that it should be possible to implement without too much trouble (though of course, there will be a performance hit because X searches have to be made instead of 1).

As an example, imagine i have tagged photographs by place, by date, by persons. I have a saved a search that returns the results of photos in my hometown last summer. With the search-in-search feature I would be able to easily search for my sister's photos last summer in my hometown. As for my actual case, I have more complicated tags on separate folders, so it's much more of a hassle to manually combine search conditions.

A possible complication would be what happens when searching in multiple saved searches, so I think a restriction of using only a single saved search would be a good choice (and the an additional search group could be used anyway).