saving the results of a search?

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi,

another round of tagging and rating over the week-end
brings up some more questions+comments (I am using svn trunk):

a) is there a way to save the results of a search?

  More precisely, I would like to get a list of file-names
    /images/Pictures/Album1/IMG_3459.JPG
    /images/Pictures/Album4/IMG_4500.JPG
    /images/Pictures/Album4/IMG_4520.JPG

  This list could then easily be postprocessed
  (For example resized and copied somewhere outside of digikams control)

  I am sure that this could also be done externally by some
  clever sequence of sql commands, but the above might be simpler.


b) Search for rated images with "Rating higher than *****":
   As far as I know it is not possible to assign ratings larger than 5,
   so "Rating higher than 5*" will not have any results.
   Maybe an (additional)  choice such as "Rating at least "
   and the corresponding
   ">=" operation would be better?

   BTW: It seems that an additional color label around the stars
   can be useful as well (eg. red 5 stars for the best of
   the best ;-), see
   http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/ss/cs2adobebridge_8.htm

d) Great is also the new feature of pressing CTRL+1 ... CTRL+5
   to assign a rating. Many thanks!

   A minor point: would it be possible to update the display in the
   thumbnail picture immediately? I am sometimes
   not sure if I pressed CTRL+... or SHIFT+... and therefore
   frequently change to the next picture to check the result.

c) I just found out that when using the tag-filters one can assign
   several selected (via CTRL-click) tags using drag-and-drop
   for several selected images - very cool!

   It would be very convenient
   if this could also be made working for the "Comments&Tags".

   BTW: Tag filters are very useful! In addition to [ ], [x]
   a [-] to select all which do not have a given tag might be nice.

   And there seems to be one little glitch: when dragging a bunch
   of tags to a non-selected image, this also gets all the tags.

Alright, I better stop here before I put too many things
in one mail.

Digikam really rocks, many thanks for this great program,

Arnd




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[Marcel Wiesweg]

>
>    A minor point: would it be possible to update the display in the
>    thumbnail picture immediately? I am sometimes
>    not sure if I pressed CTRL+... or SHIFT+... and therefore
>    frequently change to the next picture to check the result.

I will take a look at that, I probably missed some place where the rating is
assigned with the patch last week.

Marcel
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[Marcel Wiesweg]

>
> I will take a look at that, I probably missed some place where the rating
> is assigned with the patch last week.
>

The problem is that the shortcut changes the state of the sidebar rating
widget only and the change is applied to the DB only when the picture is
changed, and then the main view is informed.
Should theh change directly be written to the DB?

Marcel
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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le Mardi 11 Avril 2006 10:39 PM, Marcel Wiesweg a écrit :
> > I will take a look at that, I probably missed some place where the rating
> > is assigned with the patch last week.
>
> The problem is that the shortcut changes the state of the sidebar rating
> widget only and the change is applied to the DB only when the picture is
> changed, and then the main view is informed.
> Should theh change directly be written to the DB?
>

well, a better way is to use the rating method from image contextual menu (to
batch rating on current album). It's more powerfull...

Gilles
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[Arnd Baecker]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Caulier Gilles wrote:

> Le Mardi 11 Avril 2006 10:39 PM, Marcel Wiesweg a écrit :
> > > I will take a look at that, I probably missed some place where the rating
> > > is assigned with the patch last week.
> >
> > The problem is that the shortcut changes the state of the sidebar rating
> > widget only and the change is applied to the DB only when the picture is
> > changed, and then the main view is informed.
> > Should theh change directly be written to the DB?

I don't know about the technical implications of such a change,
but it would give the user immediate feedback.
Might be worth a try.

> well, a better way is to use the rating method from image contextual menu (to
> batch rating on current album). It's more powerfull...

However, when rating pictures individually I very much like the recent
CTRL+1 to CTRL+5 way via the keyboard. So for rating a sequence of
pictures I only need the  keyboard and don't have to use the mouse
(which is not as fast).

The context menu is another option, but normally the
ratings differ strongly from one picture to the next
(i.e. good/very good pictures come less often than, let's say, 1* ones ;-)

Best, Arnd
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