[Shotwell] Tags enhancement

[Bruno Girin]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:55 +0200, Peter DO Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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"
> 
> Yes, except I mean a logical AND

Yes, I gathered that. I just thought that a logical OR may be useful
too :-)

> 
> >
> > That makes sense :-) The difficulty here is probably to come up with a
> > UI that is actually easy and intuitive to use.
> >
> 
> Leave the UI as it is. You simply Control-Click on the tags to build
> up your tag selection (and change the colour of the marked tags)

OK, that could be a quick shortcut.


> > Something like having the actual magnification percentage displayed next
> > to the slider?
> 
> Yes, I routinely go to a 100% or 1:1 view to check the sharpness of my photos

That makes sense. Another improvement that could be useful for this use
case would be to have easy shortcuts for default magnification like
100%, best fit, etc.


> If I press F11, zoom and drag it exhibits this behaviour but only
> under these conditions. I drag the slider, pause while I consider the
> degree of magnification. While I pause the bottom popup panel
> disappears. Now if I move the cursor over the image it remains a
> pointer (does not change to a drag hand). If now I click and hold on
> the image, preparatory to dragging, the image size resets.

OK, I managed to reproduce it and opened a ticket:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2166

Bruno