rfe: show age depending on age,

[Cedric BRINER]

Hello,

I was thinking about a feature to add to digikam.

What if Digikam shows the age of a person (a wedding...) on the picture
depending on a tag or depending of a folder. Like for eg. we add the
metadata saying that he/she is born in 1/1/200 on the tag "joe" or on
the folder "alice". And then digikam can caculate the age by
substracting the birthday to the date on the image contained in the exif.

Sound's really cool !!

Imagine this particular scenario (which could happen to anyone soon :) )

   you just become a new father, and since that time you are taking too
many pictures of your son/daughter.
   And then when you rewatch them, you realize that you already forgot
how old he/she was at that time (God damn, how is it possible to forgot
such thing :) ).

 From there you can imagine:
you ask Digikam to find all the pictures of "Joe" and ask it to show it
in a age fashion.

   Something that have to be think is how people would like them to be
   classified in the time. Because, don't forget that usually person,
   have a view of life where the milestone are small when the person is
   young..

    at the beginning you give the age by day ( up to one week)
    0 , 1, 2..7 day

    then by week (I think up to 6 month)
    1, 2, 3.. ~30

    then by month (up to 24)
    6,7,8..24

    then by half year (...)

    and then by year (...)


Thanks for your reading, and tell me your impressions.

Ced.


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Dnia środa 18 lipiec 2007, cedric briner napisał:
> What if Digikam shows the age of a person (a wedding...) on the picture
> depending on a tag or depending of a folder. Like for eg. we add the
> metadata saying that he/she is born in 1/1/200 on the tag "joe" or on
> the folder "alice". And then digikam can caculate the age by
> substracting the birthday to the date on the image contained in the
> exif.

Definitely not for core functionality. But with some interface for
scripting - Kross - and user defined fields in database, why not?

m.

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[Cedric BRINER]

> Definitely not for core functionality. But with some interface for
> scripting - Kross - and user defined fields in database, why not?

So sorry to hear that this is not for the core functionality. Because
when I read what is digikam for:
digiKam - KDE Photo Management | The Photo Management For The Masses

and the _masses_ do photo of their family as their main subject. And
maybe half of them will have children or event that needs such kind of
feature. It feels to me that this is quite important.

:(

okay, how should I do to push this idea which I find really good (it's
always fantastic to think that your own ideas are good !)

  - Should I code it myself
  - send this rfe to an other mailing list
  - Is there somewehere like a place where people give their idea ?

Ced.
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On Wednesday, 18. July 2007, cedric briner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was thinking about a feature to add to digikam.
>
> What if Digikam shows the age of a person (a wedding...) on the picture
> depending on a tag or depending of a folder. Like for eg. we add the
> metadata saying that he/she is born in 1/1/200 on the tag "joe" or on
> the folder "alice". And then digikam can caculate the age by
> substracting the birthday to the date on the image contained in the exif.
>
> Sound's really cool !!
>
> Imagine this particular scenario (which could happen to anyone soon :) )
>
>    you just become a new father, and since that time you are taking too
> many pictures of your son/daughter.
>    And then when you rewatch them, you realize that you already forgot
> how old he/she was at that time (God damn, how is it possible to forgot
> such thing :) ).
>
>  From there you can imagine:
> you ask Digikam to find all the pictures of "Joe" and ask it to show it
> in a age fashion.
>
>    Something that have to be think is how people would like them to be
>    classified in the time. Because, don't forget that usually person,
>    have a view of life where the milestone are small when the person is
>    young..
>
>     at the beginning you give the age by day ( up to one week)
>     0 , 1, 2..7 day
>
>     then by week (I think up to 6 month)
>     1, 2, 3.. ~30
>
>     then by month (up to 24)
>     6,7,8..24
>
>     then by half year (...)
>
>     and then by year (...)
>
>
> Thanks for your reading, and tell me your impressions.

While not exactly what you're looking for,

        o select date view
        o filter on name-of-kid

should give you pictures of our kid(s) grouped
by month.

Only problem (IMHO) is that 'empty' folders
listed too.  This makes date view quite
painful for rare tags.

Achim

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