This is possibly more relevant to terminology discussion, but I think a lot of the problems we are having with terminology stem from the fact that different people have a different ideas on what they expect a XXX to be.
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:47 +0200, Marcus Hast wrote: > On 9/19/06, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, if the default is to show all the tags, then what is the > > difference between tags and albums? The whole album effect could be > > gotten by creating a top-level tag called Albums and adding tags under > > it, each an album. > > The pictures belonging to an Album are ordered, pictures belonging to > a tag are not. As I see it a picture belongs to an album and a tag belongs to a picture, not the other way round. I think this distinction is fundamental. A tag is just an arbitrary piece of meta data, an album is some kind of container. > > Personally I think it would be a good idea if more meta information > could be added to an Album as well. Eg a description of the album and > things like that. > > It could be implemented similarly to a tag however. > > /Marcus > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > I like the idea of having further information about an album, and I really see the benefit of having it as an ordered collection (it took me some thinking). If we go down the line of meta data about albums then why can't we tag them? (I'm not sure if it is a good idea as yet just putting it out there) I've seen people discussing using tags to mark photos for export, and I seem to remember that this sort of thing was frowned upon by Larry when done automatically (that could be me getting the wrong end of the stick). For this is it worth having a second class of tag called a flag? The idea being that flags can be added to a photo but are not visible as tags, they would not appear in the list or with the photos. I'm thinking of things like an export flag, say "Exported to <gallery> on <server>. <date>" Sam -- Sam Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
