Bug 443100

Summary: Allow sorting by arbitrary tag, or date tag.
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: adam.siembida
Component: Albums-ItemsSortAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 7.3.0   
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Platform: unspecified   
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Description adam.siembida 2021-09-29 01:52:35 UTC 
I wish there was a feature that allowed to to choose which metadata tag to sort by. For example, if rather than sorting by EXIF (which doesn't take into account time zone), I wanted to sort by XMP DateCreated, which DOES account for time zone, I have no way of doing that.

Because EXIF dates take priority over XMP dates, the only ways I can think of getting sorting accounting for time zone is to:
1. Delete all my EXIF dates so that my XMP dates can be used. Bad because I need to modify my files just to get sorting in the app.
2. Change all my times to UTC. Undesired because it is harder to account for daylight savings time if you really want to know the local time where the picture was taken.

I wish I could just change the sorting to XMP DateCreated.

See Issue 443098 for a related issue that originally motivated this request.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443098
Comment 1 adam.siembida 2021-09-29 01:56:33 UTC 
A relatively easy way to improve the situation, without having to make major changes and edge cases, would be some setting in options that allows re-ordering the priority of metadata group.

For example, to allow a user to move XMP dates as a higher priority than EXIF.