Looking for a Picture Management Program#

[Chris G]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 10:44:57PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote:
> On 06/07/2008, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >  I know digikam has other 'views' (by date and by collection) but using
> >  these you lose all of the album names.  I want to be able to name my
> >  albums with meaningful names (e.g. "Spain, holiday") but keep them in
> >  chronological order.  This seems such an obvious thng to want to do
> >  that it amazes me that there isn't an image management program out
> >  there that can do it.
> >
> 
> Hey,
> 
> F-Spot _does_ organise chronologically. For example, my directory
> structure for the start of the year looks like this:
> 
> :~/Photos$ tree -d 2008|head -20
> 2008
> |-- 01
> |   |-- 03
> |   |-- 04
> |   |-- 05
> |   |-- 13
> |   |-- 14
> |   |-- 15
> |   |-- 20
> |   |-- 26
> |   `-- 27
> |-- 02
> |   |-- 02
> |   |-- 03
> |   |-- 16
> |   |-- 20
> |   |-- 22
> |   |-- 23
> |   `-- 26
> |-- 03
> 
If you name your albums that way in digikam it will do exactly the same
thing. 

> One of the navigation methods in fspot is dragging a box across a timescale.
> Checkout a screenshot here: http://screenshotforge.com/shots/view/35/161
> 
> This is not quite the chronological + meaningful named folders that
> you are after, but combined with the tagging and album generation
> within the app you should be able to achieve your goal or something
> close. It may be worth a look.
> 
I suspect that digikam can parallel that almost exactly but it's not
what I'm after really, thanks all the same.

-- 
Chris Green