[Shotwell] Tags enhancement

[Adam Dingle]

On 06/22/2010 05:35 AM, Keith Duncan wrote:
>
>> The beauty of selecting multiple tags is the speed and simplicity of
>> the operation. It doesn't do away with the need for a more
>> comprehensive search. But I am sure a multiple tag selection facility
>> is the one I would use by far the most often..
>>
>>      
> With apologies if Im hijacking the this thread (I am new to the list) , but
> as its semi-related ...
>    

No problem - feel free to jump into any discussion around here.  :)

> 1. This may already be covered by the planned boolean search, but I think it
> may also be useful to have the option to search for photos that are untagged
> and/or perhaps photos that are imported could be auto-assigned a tag (eg
> current date)  (esp perhaps if there is no EXIF data?  eg
> "No-EXIF-photos-imported-YYYY-MM-DD_at_HHMMSS").
>    

Agreed: these capabilities could be useful.  See 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1609 and http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1586 .

> 2. Less of an issue(?) - "adding new tags where existing similar tags may
> exist"
>
> As the list of tags grows, I dont want to have to remember if I have the
> tag  "Family Holidays" or "Family holidays", or was it "family holidays" (or
> even "family", "holidays" or "Holidays - family" etc).
>
> Yes I know I could browse the long... list of tags and drag/drop photos to
> existing tags, but there are other times I might want to quickly perform an
> "Add Tag" op before checking if anything like it already exists.   I think
> it _may_ be useful if some sort of prompt was given advising of existing
> similar tag(s) that are nearly the same and then to have the option to use
> these tags as well as or (more likely) instead of or alternatively create a
> new substantially different tag.
>    

You're right that if you have lots of tags today, it's hard to see the 
tags that are similar to a given name.  Before long we'd like to 
implement tag autocompletion (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1334) which 
should help with this: you'll be able to type part of any tag name and 
possible matches will appear in a dropdown list.

> eg instead of adding a new  tag "landscape" where an existing tag of
> "Landscapes" exists, I should be warned/prompted.
>
> 3. Related to 2 above,  perhaps the option to merge tags/photos could be
> built into some form of "health status/repair tool" that also offers other
> functionality (eg photo has gone away - do also you want to update
> Shotwell).
>    

It's true that it might be convenient to have a command to merge tags.  
If you would find this useful then feel free to file a ticket for this.

We're planning to implement directory monitoring soon 
(http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/374).  Once we have that, Shotwell should 
automatically notice when photos have gone away so I hope there 
shouldn't be a need for a manual repair step.

> In closing I would like to say that I really like Shotwell - its only
> recently that I have started using it but I do like what I see. I would echo
> Peter's earlier comment - the team deserve full marks - keep up the good
> work.
>    

Thanks!  :)

adam