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