[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.7 plan

[Adam Dingle]

On 07/02/2010 12:00 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:29 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
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>>       * Rating photos. The user will be able to assign any of the
>> following ratings to each photo: unrated (the default), 1-5 stars, or
>> Rejected (the lowest rating). You will be able to sort and/or filter by
>> rating. By default, Shotwell will display all photos except rejected
>> photos. In the browser view, we'll have a dropdown menu on the toolbar
>> that will allow you to select a different filter, e.g. only 3 stars and
>> higher. This will replace Shotwell's existing hidden/favorites
>> mechanism. When you upgrade from 0.6 to 0.7, all previously hidden
>> photos will become Rejected and all previously favorite photos will be
>> assigned a rating of 5 stars.  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2233]
>>      
> Considering that F-Spot includes, a 1-5 star rating, a hidden flag and a
> favorite tag, what should be the behaviour when an F-Spot photo is
> imported that is hidden, has a rating of 3 stars and has the favorite
> tag attached? Does the rating take precedence?
>    

I'd suggest that if an F-Spot photo has a numeric rating (3 stars in 
this case), we should use that.  If it has no rating, but is a favorite, 
let's give it 5 stars.  If it has no rating, but has the hidden flag, 
let's assign it to be Rejected.  If it has no rating and is both hidden 
and a favorite, let's just make it unrated (the default value).

>>       * Migration for F-Spot users. Shotwell 0.7 will be able to migrate
>> an F-Spot library to Shotwell by reading the F-Spot database directly.
>> Tags and ratings from F-Spot will be preserved. If a user has edited a
>> photo in F-Spot, the latest version of the photo (and, perhaps, the
>> original version too) will be available in Shotwell.
>> [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/139]
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> Events will be preserved too. Places and People will be imported as
> tags.
>
> However, note that, because Shotwell doesn't support nested tags, F-Spot
> nested tags will result in several (unrelated) tags in Shotwell. That
> is, unless ticket 1401 is implemented too:
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>>       * hierarchical tags  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401]
>>      

Right.  We'd love to implement hierarchical tags, but there may just not 
be time for this release.  We'll see what happens.

adam