I proposed in the past (but I haven't had the chance to work on it yet...)
to have some kind of "saved searches" that would hold tags, ratings and
dates.  That way, I can have a single tag "Jean's Anniversary" but I can
build several "albums/catalogs" based on the search of this tag and a
selection of dates/ratings.  That would automatically filter out pictures I
like less, for my anniversary, for a single year and make it easy to
retrieve later on.

For the moment, though, I'm still learning C# basics (I'm not a programmer),
so I don't know when I'll be able to implement such a feature myself.
Jean.
2010/6/1 William Shubert <[email protected]>

> Thanks Oliver and Lorenzo for the advice. I have now made my patch and
> submitted it, along with a bug report, at
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620226
>
> It was very straightforward, the tips to look at Updater.cs for database
> schema changes made it all very easy. The one part that gave me trouble
> was making the UI look good. As I said in the bug report, I haven't done
> GTK before, so I just added a TextView and a label to the "Edit Tag"
> dialog. This made the TextView ugly with no border or other visual cue,
> and as the TextView grows and shrinks, the whole dialog grows and
> shrinks with it. If you want to give me a tip on fixing this, I can, or
> if it's easy maybe somebody else can just do it themselves. Otherwise I
> think that the patch is ready to go.
>
> I read the discussion in bug 361470. It seems that some people want
> catalogs in addition to tags, but my preference would be to keep things
> simple; having one thing in the application, with optional fields that
> can be ignored (making it more like a tag) or filled out (making it more
> like a catalog), it seems you get all the benefits of the two objects
> while keeping both the UI and the code simpler.
>
> The description is the only tag enhancement really feels necessary to
> me. It would be nice (as pointed out in bug 361470) to be able to set
> the order of photos in a tag/catalog, but that can be done by fiddling
> with the photo times. It would also be nice if photo exporters used the
> description when exporting, but there are so many exporters and I didn't
> want the patch to become too big by adding this feature to each of them.
> So for now the patch just adds an optional description to each tag, you
> can fill it out, then you see it when you reopen the "tag description"
> dialog later.
>
> How does it look?
>
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