My impression of the requirement was actually more that one album would correspond essentially to one f-spot.db - that is, one collection of photos and tags. The example would be for when someone's got a collection on a detachable hard drive or network drive or whatever.
At any rate, I don't know that I'd really use either feature, to be honest. Does anyone personally have a need for it? Maybe calling it a 'slide show' would be more clear to people? > Sam Barker wrote: > >>> However, I think the key differentiator is what other people have >>> mentioned : Ordering. I think usable definitions are: >> >>> Tag: Identifies an unsorted collection of photos with a common theme >>> Album: Identifies a sorted collection of photos with a common theme >>> >> >> Surely the way you describe of using albums is exactly why we have tags, >> and what tags are very good at. A tag is just a tag! It doesn't have any >> other meaning. An album is a group of photos, this could either be a >> physical group i.e. in the same folder on a disk or a logical group that >> is a selection of photos with several tags in common i.e sam & emma & >> Edinburgh. >> > > I guess I didn't make my point clearly enough. The distinction other > people were making (and I think it's a good one) is *ORDERING*. > > A tag identifies an unordered collection of photos. When you are > tagging photos, there's no way to say "I want to see this one first, > then this one, then the other one". > > An Album is a *ORDERED* collection of photos. The user can say: "I want > to see this picture of Aunt Betty first, then this picture of her dog, > then this picture of her house, etc.". The ordering is remembered, > and used when doing slideshows, exporting to a web gallery, etc. > > To be honest, I don't care what word we use (flikr uses the word "Set" > for what I'm describing as "Album"). But I think the ordered/unordered > thing is an important distinction that's missing in what f-spot does > right now. > > Warren > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
