Bug 236249

Summary:	wish: custom sort in album view
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	etiennesky
Component:	Albums-Sort	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	6.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	example fssort.ini created by FSViewer

Description etiennesky 2010-05-03 23:47:18 UTC

Version:           1.2.0 (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Custom sorting is a useful feature not available in digikam.
Combined with batch renaming, custom sorting of pictures and movies allow to keep the desired sorting regardless of which viewer is used.

I manage photos from different cameras and wish to have them sorted by exif date. These pictures, along with movies which do not have exif timestamps, are manually sorted and then uploaded to an online photo album. The windows freeware FSViewer (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm) allows to custom sort images and batch rename them.

This is the one feature stopping me from using digiKam for managing my pictures. Thanks!

Comment 1 Marcel Wiesweg 2010-05-04 18:20:31 UTC

How/where does FSViewer store the order resulting from manual sorting?

Btw: I'm sure there is a very old bug report already about this topic.

Comment 2 etiennesky 2010-05-04 18:39:23 UTC

Created attachment 43245 [details]
example fssort.ini created by FSViewer

Comment 3 etiennesky 2010-05-04 18:41:24 UTC

FSViewer adds a "fssort.ini" file to each folder which has a manual sort.
The files are just one filename per line, in the order sorted.

I'm sure there is a better way of doing it, but it would be a good start!

Comment 4 Arnd Baecker 2010-05-04 19:52:56 UTC

Marcel, the related bug is on top 3 of the wishes for digikam
(after face detection/recognition and easy stitcher ;-)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91562

Comment 5 etiennesky 2010-05-04 20:05:08 UTC

wow opened 5 years ago! Please look into this!!! Added my vote

Sorry for posting duplicate, I didn't find it when I searched...

also another request, marked as duplicate:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230136

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2010-05-06 09:34:24 UTC

Yes, to add manual sort of items in icon view will be a killer feature.

I mark this file as duplicate of 91562

Gilles Caulier

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 91562 ***

Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2010-05-06 09:35:58 UTC

Marcel, 

I Forget to mention some words about ini file : do not use this way in digiKam (:=))). use DB of course, or at least a mordern way to host info in text file : XML.

Gilles Caulier

Comment 8 Marcel Wiesweg 2010-05-06 18:55:50 UTC

I have come to think about this feature as "playlist" or, in its extended form, "presentation mode".
XML is probably best suited to represent it, be the XML stored in a file or in the database.
But, for this summer, we already have three large projects from GSoC.

Comment 9 caulier.gilles 2010-05-10 12:47:32 UTC

XML file can be fine for physical albums... but not for Virtual album. So for me, hosting these information in DB is the best way.

Gilles

Comment 10 caulier.gilles 2018-08-01 09:33:19 UTC

Git commit c6e92a02cfeebc86b60faad9442e780a7342abbf by Maik Qualmann.
Committed on 31/07/2018 at 19:46.
Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'.

fix and optimize manual sorting

M  +21   -13   core/app/items/digikamimageview.cpp
M  +0    -2    core/libs/database/coredb/coredb.cpp
M  +14   -2    core/libs/database/item/imageinfo.cpp
M  +1    -1    core/libs/database/item/imageinfo.h
M  +1    -1    core/libs/database/item/imageinfodata.h

https://commits.kde.org/digikam/c6e92a02cfeebc86b60faad9442e780a7342abbf