Currently Digikam shows albums as a tree view, and I think it's not possible to change that. Other picture organizers (e.g. Picasa) also offer the option to view folders as a flat album list, putting folders and subfolders at the same level, usually sorted by capture date of the photos in each subfolder. For me, each folder/album is an event, which I want them to appear chronologically sorted. A flat view offers a simpler album list, regardless of how they are organized in the original filesystem.
Definitively no. This is how digiKam have been developed since a very long time, with this kind of concept at project startup, quickly rejected by end user in favor of nested tree view. The album tree-view is based on folder hierarchy. If you want a flat list, use tags view. For time-stamp based flat list use Date view, etc... Gilles Caulier
Ok, fair enough, but seeing the multiple ways of visualizing and sorting the albums already included in Digikam, I don't think it would be completely far-fetched to offer that option as well. I mean, there's even a "flat list" option for the icon view already, why not for the folder view as well?
@ MarcP: You can view all images of a collection by selecting the collection album (root album) in Albums (left sidebar) and check the following: View -> Separate Items -> Flat View View -> Include Album Sub-Tree With View -> Sort Items -> By Creation Date all your images are sorted chronologically, not separated by folders.
Thanks Johannes, but it's not exactly what I meant. In another picture manager there was the option to see all folders/albums as a flat list, without hierarchies, sorted by date. But in any case, I already got used to they way digikam works, so it's fine.
Pity this won't be added. In Picasa this allowed for hierarchy of folders (albums) of arbitrary depth and at the same time enabling my family to navigate through the collection (b/c they remember everything by album name) easily. Now try to explain 80+ year old a concept of tags, advanced searches and such. Even album tree navigation can be difficult to grasp.