Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-03 Thread Niels Weber
2008/9/2 Frode Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > gThumb is supposed to be able to use manual sorting, but that option was > grayed out in the menu on this system. gThumb allows manual ordering, but only for pictures in a catalog, not in a directory. So what you do is put all the pictures in a new ca

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Frode Petersen
... and they'd *still* come out in filename (or possibly date) order and not the order I want. You're absolutely right! I should have read the message more thoroughly. I thought you had two sequences of images and wanted to choose one or the other of each pair (i.e. 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A...) I hav

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Frode Petersen wrote: > Chris G: >> I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good >> solution. >> >> I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other >> applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. >>

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Frode Petersen
Chris G: I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution. I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various differ

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:18 +0100, Chris G wrote: > I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from > various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a > specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric > file name or anything of that sort (

Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Chris G
I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution. I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam