SUMMARY When creating a new album digikam shall set the album date to the earliest date of the contained pictures. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start digikam 2. Select some pictures in the thumbnail view 3. Select context menu "move to album" 4. Press the button "new Album" in the dialog "Select album" OBSERVED RESULT The predefined date in the dialog "New album" is "today". EXPECTED RESULT Option A) The predefined date in the dialog "New album" should be the earliest date of the selected pictures. Option B) Digikam should present the buttons "earliest"/"average"/"latest", which are also shown, when the properties of an existing album are modified. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION What is already implemented: A) New album 1. Create a new folder in the operating system 2. Place some pictures into the folder 3. Start digikam and let digikam refresh 4. Digikam does recognize the new album and sets the album property date to the earliest date of all contained pictures. B) Edit album When album properties are modified, there are buttons set date to "earlies"/"average"/"latest".
Git commit c5e850df3a1a9bdd1019e288f1fda2fd1a188ce3 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 27/10/2022 at 19:57. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. update album date when copying move and delete images Both the target album and the source album, depending on the action. FIXED-IN: 8.0.0 M +1 -1 NEWS M +47 -1 core/libs/database/utils/ifaces/dio.cpp M +1 -0 core/libs/database/utils/ifaces/dio.h M +12 -0 core/libs/iojobs/iojobdata.cpp M +1 -0 core/libs/iojobs/iojobdata.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/c5e850df3a1a9bdd1019e288f1fda2fd1a188ce3
Note that there is an option in the digiKam settings to use the oldest, newest or average album date. Maik