asked 2013-12-25 23:49:39 +0300
I am finding it difficult to browse through my photos. I have over 5000 pictures in SD separated in different folders by dates and events. So when every picture is shown in one view finding something is virtually impossible. Previous phones' galleries were able to separate pics by folder. Main view in current Gallery could be as is IMO but in Photos pics could be shown by album.
answered 2014-04-07 13:55:08 +0300
In addition to Folder Views, an option should be available to limit which folders Gallery scans for images... I don't really want all my AlbumArt for music appearing in my photo gallery!
There is a separate question/feature request for this option! please head over there and vote for it! https://together.jolla.com/question/2257/exclude-folders-from-gallery/
bennypr0fane ( 2014-12-22 01:35:43 +0300 )editanswered 2014-01-20 00:25:54 +0300
Of course, I do agree, having nearly 3000 pics sorted by folder and..in the Jolla it's..a bit of a mess.
In the meantime you can use the acv pic viewer from f-droid.org. It is very customisable and has the option to open a pic from a chosen folder
human19 ( 2014-01-20 02:02:34 +0300 )editanswered 2014-12-21 12:54:24 +0300
Also, pictures are not sorted accordingly. It seems to me that pictures are sorted not by Exif Date and Time but by creation date of the file itself. Very annoying if you copy old photos by SSH to the phone, because creation date doesn't remain. At least there should be an option to sort by Exif Date and Time. By that, one could also filter by Year, Month, etc ...
That is correct, yes. It seems the file creation dates were already screwed up. :-( Anyway, it would be really nice to have different options for sorting. Sorting by Exif data would be nice, though. Creation dates can get lost on copying between camera to NAS, from NAS to phone or from CD/DVD to PC to phone ... and so on ;-)
Sören ( 2014-12-22 17:25:49 +0300 )editditto that nuisance, every time to move or copy images around you dont want to change the chronological position in the gallery.
DarkTuring ( 2016-10-21 21:50:42 +0300 )editanswered 2016-09-29 11:23:51 +0300
BUMP!
A reminder that this is still not at all implemented..after quite long request time. If you look at Whatsapp how it simply shows pictures you want to add to a chat in a folder view this would be already enough to "survive" this chaotical folder mix up we have now.
Also I realized that moving pictures from internal memory to sd card seems to influence the sorting order of the pictures in the gallery pictures are shown based on last change date instead of creation date. I have pictures that are more than 2 years old that now show up before others that are just couple of months old, the only explanation i have is that I moved the older ones to the sd card recently.
answered 2015-01-04 01:38:38 +0300
It should be possible to give custom tags to pictures and videos in Jolla regardless where the files originate from. The Gallery could then let user to browse and view contents by providing a tag cloud view in the top-level and/or an option to search pictures/videos based on tag criteria. Tags or keywords could also be provided and implemented as an organizational criteria for pictures/videos in addition to Albums and Folders.
I agree. I think tags give more freedom than folders because pictures can have multiple tags and tags can still be used to simulate folders. JPEG images support storing tags ("keywords") inside the image files, and there is good support for reading these in other software as well. The anatomy of tagging JPEG images is documented here: https://beckustech.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/tagging-jpeg-image-files/
xkr47 ( 2015-06-17 09:58:41 +0300 )editRequested separately here: https://together.jolla.com/question/9449/enable-tagging-of-media-content-pictures-videos-etc/
xkr47 ( 2015-06-17 10:03:52 +0300 )editanswered 2015-12-20 19:32:26 +0300
Stepchild Gallery App
February: Update main view of Gallery app for Tablet
March: Option to move photos and media from internal memory to SD card
August: Adapt Gallery, Media player and Maps layouts for Tablet; Design album support for Gallery app
-> None of the features concerning photos that were planned for this year is implemented till now.
This feature request was originally posted two years ago. Meanwhile it has got approximately 400 votes.
So, Jolla, if you had enough air to breathe after having recently bypassed the third Death Valley, I would really like to ask you to give this feature a higher priority now, please. :-)
To my mind, there are good reasons to do so:
That's also the reason why I would prefer folders not to be automatically created by date. Instead I'd enjoy being able to create own folders by theme and manually move the pictures there. As others might wish to easily copy the latest photos to their computer, folders by date should probably be an option, too. :-)
answered 2014-05-10 15:27:51 +0300
In addition, It would be great to be able not to show a preview of the folder or to be able to chose an icon instead. If I want to show some pictures to a stranger, I don’t necessarily want him to see pictures of my family while I’m browsing for the good folder.
answered 2014-12-22 06:20:17 +0300
https://together.jolla.com/question/72706/feature-request-sorting-out-pictures-in-gallery/
I approve
answered 2015-01-16 00:32:47 +0300
Well, I can only agree. Folder sorting is one of those basic things that I don't even know why the Jolla lacks them. It's like a motorboat without an engine.
Asked: 2013-12-25 23:49:39 +0300
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Also it would be great to be able to create own folders and move photos into them..
mcuros ( 2013-12-26 11:05:29 +0300 )editI'm amazed this is so low down on the list of priorities - folder support at the top level of the gallery is a MUST!
westy ( 2014-01-16 15:17:38 +0300 )editI'm wondering that there where no quality managment in the team to recognize that defect
michaelmischke ( 2014-02-21 22:55:48 +0300 )editi would like to see the photos organised automaticslly by date, so grouped together by day week month, etc bit like iphone.
madcheeze ( 2014-05-01 10:34:21 +0300 )editI copy/backup my phone photos semi-regularly over USB. And it currently takes a long time just to bring up all the files in the folder (I have 2000+ photos), it would be very handy to split the captured photos into folders (eg. 2014-07, 2014-08, etc)
Henkka ( 2014-08-30 14:12:50 +0300 )edit