[Shotwell] Tags enhancement

[Bruno Girin]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:33 +0200, Peter DO Smith wrote:
> At last, a photo manager that I really like. I have just downloaded and
> built from the repository. This programs shows such promise. The team
> deserve full marks.
> 
> I know that an enhancement for nested tags has been proposed but I would
> like to suggest a simpler and more powerful alternative. Why not use
> Ctrl-click to select two or more tags and display the subset of photos with
> those combined tags?

So basically, if I understand it well, what you are asking for is to add
to the UI the ability to select photos based on a combination of tags,
such as:
      * All photos that have the tags "London", "Bus" and "Red"
      * All photos that have either the tag "Madrid" or "Barcelona"

That makes sense :-) The difficulty here is probably to come up with a
UI that is actually easy and intuitive to use.

> 
> I prefer this to an hierarchical system which requires me to make prior
> decisions about my photo structure. A linear list of tags which can be
> combined in many ways with multiple selections is both simple and very
> powerful.
> 
> Of course you could do both leaving people to organise tags in their
> preferred way.

I think both have their uses and I can see usage patterns where I would
use one or the other, or even a combination of both.

> 
> The new picture zoom feature is very welcome. Would like to see the
> percentage zoom though.

Something like having the actual magnification percentage displayed next
to the slider?


> When I try to drag the image after zooming, on the first try it resets the
> displayed size and then on the second try works as expected. I am not sure
> if this is a bug or a user error.

Do you mean?
      * Double click on the photo in the library
      * Zoom into the photo
      * Drag the photo => it reverts to default size

If that's the case, what version of Shotwell are you using? It doesn't
do this with a trunk build so it may be that this is a bug that has now
been resolved.

Bruno