[Shotwell] element spacing, tags and events

[Adam Dingle]

Peter,

On 07/12/2010 12:50 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote:
> Yes, agreed. Auto-complete is a good solution, especially when dealing
> with large lists. In my own work I use them extensively, for example
> when selecting a product from a product list of many thousands. The
> advantage really comes to the fore if one has multi-word tags where
> the auto-complete searches on all words in the tag.  But I would hate
> to lose the drag and drop tagging, I find it very satisfying.
>    

We could think about reducing the spacing in the tags list, but I'm 
somewhat worried about harming readability.  I think we should 
prioritize implementing tag autocomplete and hierarchical tags.  Once we 
have those features, I'm hopeful you'll be able to work with a large tag 
list easily, especially if we add good keyboard shortcuts.  Those 
features are unlikely for 0.7 (appearing next month!) but should be a 
high priority for further releases later this year.

> One of the additional features I would like is the capability to type
> in a description for the photo. What I would like to do here is select
> the photo and simply start typing. Any normal keystrokes after a photo
> has been selected will indicate that I am entering a description. Then
> any non-trivial word can be used to automatically tag the photo
>    

As I'm sure you know, you can already edit each photo's title simply by 
pressing F2.  Before long, we plan to implement an integrated search box 
that will search photos by any field including title (this is 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/80).  We're also considering letting the 
user enter a multi-line description for each photo 
(http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1573).  If we do so, we should also have a 
keyboard shortcut that will let you edit that description easily.

Thanks as always for your ideas and feedback!

adam