[digiKam-users] Suggestion for improving filtering view

[squeak]

Hello,

Thank you for making digikam, it's a great software :)
I saw on digikam github page that this email is a good place for suggestions, so here is one little thing:

With the filters panel, you can filter the images you see, by tag, flag, rating... If you select multiple tags you can chose AND or OR to sort images tagged with all the selected tags or one of them. It would be really cool to add a NOT system, that would show only images that are not tagged with the selected tags (it could also have more fine grain and be NOR, NAND).
This would be quite useful to exclude some pictures from the view.
The same would be really nice for flags as well, and maybe colors. You could then for example choose to see only pictures that are not flagged red (without having to select, green, orange and no flag).

Thanks for the attention, and thanks again for the great work you do :)

Take care,

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 26 mars 2019 09:07:49 CET squeak wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for making digikam, it's a great software :)
> I saw on digikam github page that this email is a good place for
> suggestions, so here is one little thing:
>
> With the filters panel, you can filter the images you see, by tag, flag,
> rating... If you select multiple tags you can chose AND or OR to sort
> images tagged with all the selected tags or one of them. It would be
> really cool to add a NOT system, that would show only images that are
> not tagged with the selected tags (it could also have more fine grain
> and be NOR, NAND).
> This would be quite useful to exclude some pictures from the view.
> The same would be really nice for flags as well, and maybe colors. You
> could then for example choose to see only pictures that are not flagged
> red (without having to select, green, orange and no flag).
>

What you want is already available in the advanced search dialog, where you
can save a search for later re-use.

Implementing it in the filter tab might have some unexpected effects:
in the case of multiple selected tags, do you want
NOT (tag1 OR tag2 OR tag3) or
(NOT tag1) OR (NOT tag2) OR (NOT tag3);
same question with AND instead of OR.

While it may be handy for some simple cases, very quickly the effects might
not be at all what you want. Or the tab gets a lot more complicated.

That said, it might be handy to have a NOT option for the colour flags,
depending on how you use them.

Remco

[digikam-2]

Hi,

What I'd like and would find useful is to be able to filter for some
text in the album view.

Just like in the search tab, just a search box to limit/filter by a
string for example:

photo-yyyymmdd-9999.cr2 and I could type mmdd and it would filter by
mmdd.

Often, I'm looking for a specific photo, I know the number and I
don't want to scroll the 1000 or so images to reach it, but I also
want to see the neighbours to select which one to get.

Thanks

Syv

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:39:30 +0100
Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On mardi 26 mars 2019 09:07:49 CET squeak wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for making digikam, it's a great software :)
> > I saw on digikam github page that this email is a good place for
> > suggestions, so here is one little thing:
> >
> > With the filters panel, you can filter the images you see, by
> > tag, flag, rating... If you select multiple tags you can chose
> > AND or OR to sort images tagged with all the selected tags or one
> > of them. It would be really cool to add a NOT system, that would
> > show only images that are not tagged with the selected tags (it
> > could also have more fine grain and be NOR, NAND).
> > This would be quite useful to exclude some pictures from the view.
> > The same would be really nice for flags as well, and maybe
> > colors. You could then for example choose to see only pictures
> > that are not flagged red (without having to select, green, orange
> > and no flag).
>
> What you want is already available in the advanced search dialog,
> where you can save a search for later re-use.
>
> Implementing it in the filter tab might have some unexpected
> effects: in the case of multiple selected tags, do you want
> NOT (tag1 OR tag2 OR tag3) or
> (NOT tag1) OR (NOT tag2) OR (NOT tag3);
> same question with AND instead of OR.
>
> While it may be handy for some simple cases, very quickly the
> effects might not be at all what you want. Or the tab gets a lot
> more complicated.
>
> That said, it might be handy to have a NOT option for the colour
> flags, depending on how you use them.
>
> Remco
>
>
>
>

--
sknahT

vyS

[digikam-2]

Somebody just pointed to me that it's already there, in the filter
tab on the right, "text filter" and it will filter by portion of the
filename

Sorry about the noise.

Thanks

Syv

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:18:07 -0700
[hidden email] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What I'd like and would find useful is to be able to filter for some
> text in the album view.
>
> Just like in the search tab, just a search box to limit/filter by a
> string for example:
>
> photo-yyyymmdd-9999.cr2 and I could type mmdd and it would filter by
> mmdd.
>
> Often, I'm looking for a specific photo, I know the number and I
> don't want to scroll the 1000 or so images to reach it, but I also
> want to see the neighbours to select which one to get.
>
> Thanks
>
> Syv
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:39:30 +0100
> Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > On mardi 26 mars 2019 09:07:49 CET squeak wrote:  
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Thank you for making digikam, it's a great software :)
> > > I saw on digikam github page that this email is a good place for
> > > suggestions, so here is one little thing:
> > >
> > > With the filters panel, you can filter the images you see, by
> > > tag, flag, rating... If you select multiple tags you can chose
> > > AND or OR to sort images tagged with all the selected tags or
> > > one of them. It would be really cool to add a NOT system, that
> > > would show only images that are not tagged with the selected
> > > tags (it could also have more fine grain and be NOR, NAND).
> > > This would be quite useful to exclude some pictures from the
> > > view. The same would be really nice for flags as well, and maybe
> > > colors. You could then for example choose to see only pictures
> > > that are not flagged red (without having to select, green,
> > > orange and no flag).  
> >
> > What you want is already available in the advanced search dialog,
> > where you can save a search for later re-use.
> >
> > Implementing it in the filter tab might have some unexpected
> > effects: in the case of multiple selected tags, do you want
> > NOT (tag1 OR tag2 OR tag3) or
> > (NOT tag1) OR (NOT tag2) OR (NOT tag3);
> > same question with AND instead of OR.
> >
> > While it may be handy for some simple cases, very quickly the
> > effects might not be at all what you want. Or the tab gets a lot
> > more complicated.
> >
> > That said, it might be handy to have a NOT option for the colour
> > flags, depending on how you use them.
> >
> > Remco
> >
> >
> >
> >  
>
>
> --
> sknahT
>
> vyS

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sknahT

vyS