On 17/09/06, Marcus Hast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/15/06, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that the term "album" should be defined much as the term is > > used for physical (paper) photo albums: a collection of photographs > > kept together. Just like in real paper photo albums, a photo could > > belong to only one album. Additionally, when viewing an album, photos > > in any other album should NOT be seen. > > > Now, when viewing a specific album, only the tags present in the > > photos of that album should be shown. There should be no evidence that > > any other photos exist in the entire universe, other than a dropdown > > box to select which album to display. Therefore, I think that each > > album warrents its own photos.db file. > > I think the functionality you describe here should exist. However I > don't think "album" is the correct term to use for it. At least > personally I see "album" to be a much less restrictive way to devide > photos. I also don't think that a photo should be restricted to only > one album. > > Most significantly I don't think each album should have it's own > database. But I *do* very much agree that there should be a way to > separate photos in different databases. > > Personally I think of "albums" more like a collection of photos. But > slightly different than a tag in that order and possibly extra > information is available. Personally I think it would be a good idea > to tie in different export options to an album. Such as export to web > server (Picasa web, Gallery, Flicker etc), "print" (possibly using > photo printing service) or to create a CD/DVD. > > I think "collection" is a better term to describe a set of photos with > separate database file. OTOH I don't think "collection" is a perfect > word to describe it. > > /Marcus >
You might take interest in another thread named "terminology" where this very thing is being discussed. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
