Bug 292050 - Sort by date does not work.
Summary: Sort by date does not work.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Albums-Sort (show other bugs)
Version: 2.4.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
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Reported: 2012-01-20 16:43 UTC by Evert Vorster
Modified: 2017-12-14 18:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 5.8.0
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Showing pictures that are supposed to be sorted by date. (396.17 KB, image/png)
2012-01-20 16:43 UTC, Evert Vorster
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Description Evert Vorster 2012-01-20 16:43:40 UTC
Created attachment 68041 [details]
Showing pictures that are supposed to be sorted by date.

Version:           2.4.1 (using KDE 4.7.4) 
OS:                Linux

I sort my pictures by date, as I have different cameras. The cameras all have their date/time correctly set up, and time-stamp the photos properly. 

When I click on an album full of albums, the images that are displayed are NOT in chronological order. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Click on an album full of albums. Note the date of the photos displayed. 

Actual Results:  
Photos are not sorted to date. 

Expected Results:  
All photos in sub-albums correctly sorted.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.2.1
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Marcel Wiesweg 2012-01-21 11:05:43 UTC
I see 14:04, 14:08, 15:07... Looks like ascending order to me?
Comment 2 Evert Vorster 2012-01-21 14:44:52 UTC
Look on the left.. .there are albums with photos from the first month, but the photos showing on the top there are from the second month... 

Looks like Digikam cannot sort purely on photo date stamp, but in stead looks at the album date, and then only sorts the photos within one album. Admittedly, the date of creation of my albums are all over the place, but I don't think that should matter, I did not ask Digikam to sort my albums, I asked it to sort my photos.
Comment 3 S. Burmeister 2012-01-21 20:11:48 UTC
You are using the albums-view hence pictures are primarily sorted by album. Sorting albums by date is not possible, see bug 227530.

The only option you have is to use another view, you can change them by clicking on the icons on the left of your digikam window. There are some date/time-related views.
Comment 4 Evert Vorster 2012-02-07 22:31:48 UTC
I guess we can change this to a wontfix, then. 

Cheers!
Comment 5 Evert Vorster 2012-02-08 00:43:46 UTC
This one has me stumped. As far as I can see, it should work, but does not. 
Here is the output of the commands you asked for:

$ glxinfo | grep GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 

2012-02-08  02:39  Wed
evert@Aspire4937:~/
$ ldd /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kwin.so  | grep libGL
ldd: /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kwin.so: No such file or directory

2012-02-08  02:40  Wed
evert@Aspire4937:~/
$ ldd /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so  | grep libGL
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f8ea950d000)

2012-02-08  02:40  Wed
evert@Aspire4937:~/
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2017-12-14 18:42:58 UTC
Sort album by date is possible with digiKam 5.8.0. See menu entry 'View/Sort Albums/By Date'

You can also process date sort of item with date view and timeline.

Gilles Caulier