Scenario/User story I:
As the user of the Gallery app, I would like to be able to view some media collection in separate Albums (like e.g. Album Art, Downloaded Images, Whisperfish Images).
Scenario/User story II:
As the same user, I want to manually specify/edit the collection sources from above in a GUI.
While it may be by design, one of the usability drawbacks of the current Gallery app list that all images (and videos) are only available in one large collection.
This brings with it usability issues, like not being able to find a certain image quickly.
Allowing users to organize the images a bit more can help with this.
PoC
There is a PoC implementation I called "Magic Sources".
[EDIT:] ported the mentioned components to a fork of this repo, renaming from "Magic" to "Favorites", and without the Settings-App part:
It is implemented as a "jolla-gallery-extension" (like vk and dropbox), and features a preliminary Settings Editor app as an addon (this is a separate app in this case because it couldn't be added to the Settings App. This could be moved into the Settings app).
(In that repo, there is a simpler variant in master which adds an Album specifically for images and videos saved by the AdvancedCam app. This may also serve as a PoC but is a bit too specific to a single app).
Scenario/User story I:
As the user of the Gallery app, I would like to be able to view some media collection in separate Albums (like e.g. Album Art, Downloaded Images, Whisperfish Images).
Scenario/User story II:
As the same user, I want to manually specify/edit the collection sources from above in a GUI.
While it may be by design, one of the usability drawbacks of the current Gallery app list that all images (and videos) are only available in one large collection.
This brings with it usability issues, like not being able to find a certain image quickly.
Allowing users to organize the images a bit more can help with this.
PoC
There is a PoC implementation I called "Magic Sources".
[EDIT:] ported the mentioned components to a fork of this repo, renaming from "Magic" to "Favorites", and without the Settings-App part:
It is implemented as a "jolla-gallery-extension" (like vk and dropbox), and features a preliminary Settings Editor app as an addon (this is a separate app in this case because it couldn't be added to the Settings App. This could be moved into the Settings app).
(In that repo, there is a simpler variant in
masterwhich adds an Album specifically for images and videos saved by the AdvancedCam app. This may also serve as a PoC but is a bit too specific to a single app).