Howdy, y'all. Another vacation, another good opportunity to do some
geeqie hacking.
So, what I was working on over winter break was a way to do image
filtering in PanView. By the time I finished, it had morphed into
boolean keyword filtering, plus some basic grouping features, using
plain text or regular expressions. It's not perfect, but it's good
enough for a V1. You can find that here (just rebased against today's
github master):
https://github.com/xsdg/geeqie/tree/kw-multifilter
At this point, I need to figure out what other pieces of Geeqie need to
get similar features, so that PanView actually makes sense in the
context of the rest of Geeqie — it doesn't make sense to have image set
concepts that only exist in PanView.
Colin already brought up Collections as a feature that needs to be
updated. The FileList is another one. Search is probably another. Are
there other important things that I'm forgetting?
From a high-level implementation perspective, I think it makes sense to
separate the file data from the view of that data. It's been long
enough that I've forgotten how that works in Geeqie, but basically,
there'll be a thing that lists directory contents, and then a view that
allows one to:
— Group images that are manually added to a group
— Filter images according to some criteria
— (Perhaps) perform the RAW/JPEG grouping that Geeqie already supports.
and then PanView can use the same File source as the rest of Geeqie, and
they'll all support the various ways to filter and group images.
If anyone is interested in helping with this effort, I could really use
some help updating the various UI bits to expose the filtering and
grouping stuff. I can do the UI stuff, but I'm fairly slow at it, and
I'm already going to have my hands full with everything that touches
FileList.
Cheers,
--xsdg
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