Bug 90116

Summary: albums should internally sort and divide images by date
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Derek Davis <derek>
Component: Albums-ItemsSortAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: jens-bugs.kde.org
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Derek Davis 2004-09-23 18:04:27 UTC 
Version:           6.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

As it is, I can only set the date for the entire album.  It would be nice if the images within an album would be ordered based on the exif date, and divided and grouped by month or something similar.  That way, one doesn't need to create different albums just because there are a lot of pictures in one spanning a lot of time, but they will be easy to navigate despite the quantity.  So, the same type of album header that is in an album now would simply be repeated throughout the list with different dates, dividing the images into month(or so) sized chunks.
Comment 1 Michał Kosmulski 2004-10-17 20:48:23 UTC 
This would be nice as long as it stays optional. Having a combo box in the toolbar (similar to the one for albums) with following options: no grouping at all, sorting by date (all images visible) and sorting by date (one month visible at a time) is a good idea IMO.
Comment 2 Renchi Raju 2004-11-09 01:32:15 UTC 
most users don't put all their files into one album. as your image collection grows this will soon become a nightmare. users are expected to have a certain workflow (of their choice) to maintain these album hierarchy. the date based grouping of images across all albums will be done at some point, but not using the design you proposed. sorry
Comment 3 Jens 2005-04-05 01:38:08 UTC 
Hi,

suggestion: combine this with a "calendar view" applet, in the sidebar suggested in Bug #91372.

-----------------------------------
  << [2002] [2003] [2004] >>

   January February March
   April   May      June
   July    August   September
   October November December

    28 29 30 31  1  2  3
     4  5  6  7  8  9 10
    11 12 13 14 15 16 17
    18 19 20 21 22 23 24
    25 26 27 28 29 30  1
-----------------------------------

This would show all the days/months/years where _no_ photos exist greyed out (unselectable), and months and days as "flat buttons" (like the KDE calendar widget).

Clicking on a year, then a month, will show all pictures from that month. Clicking *additionally* on a day will show *only* pics from that day. With CTRL (or without?) one can (de)select multiple months and days (also years?).

This would work somewhat like the iPhoto calendar, but be more flexible.

Jens