Groups for tag albums

[hampoelz]

Enhancement

We're currently migrating from Piwigo to Lychee. In Piwigo, it was possible to create tag albums within other albums. As far as I know, Lychee only offers the option to create tag albums at the top level, separate from the normal albums, which is perfectly fine. However, since the smart albums are displayed at the top of the page and we've about 40 tag albums, they would take up almost the entire page and you'd have to scroll down to see the actual albums.

The simplest solution would probably be to simply move the tag albums after the regular albums. Perhaps with an option to keep the system tag albums ("Unsorted", "Starred", "Recent", ...) at the top.

Another solution would be to be able to group tag albums (e.g. a folder called "Nature" which then contains the tag albums called "Birds", "Fish", "Mountains", etc.).

I know there have already been discussions about allowing tag albums within normal albums (such as #1141, #1567), which would of course be the most flexible solution. But I also understand that this is probably very difficult to implement with the current architecture (and/or out of scope). But having groups/folders for tag albums would already be a very big improvement.

[ildyria]

One solution does not exclude the other one.

The simplest solution would probably be to simply move the tag albums after the regular albums. Perhaps with an option to keep the system tag albums ("Unsorted", "Starred", "Recent", ...) at the top.

That should be fairly easy to implement. It is mostly playing with:
https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/blob/master/resources/js/views/gallery-panels/Albums.vue
https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/blob/master/resources/js/composables/album/albumsRefresher.ts

Probably add a configuration option, but I don't think that would be too hard to implement, especially since @cdzombak implemented the Pinned/Featured albums.

Another solution would be to be able to group tag albums (e.g. a folder called "Nature" which then contains the tag albums called "Birds", "Fish", "Mountains", etc.).

That has quite some implications, for example, should a tag album be allowed to be belong to multiple groups?
can a group include another group? How do you display groups of tag albums?

[hampoelz]

In short, we would be perfectly happy with anything that allows us to organise the tag albums a little better. :)

That has quite some implications, for example, should a tag album be allowed to be belong to multiple groups?

Can't I just create a second tag album with the same tags? In that case, I think it would only add extra complexity.

Can a group include another group?

I think one level of groups would be enough. Especially since recursive groups would probably increase the complexity quite a bit.

How do you display groups of tag albums?

So I see two possibilities: The groups could be displayed similarly to an album. Or they could be grouped together in the gallery root directory with headings. (Similar to the "Featured Albums" grouping)