Ryan, On 11/21/2010 12:30 PM, Ryan Rushton wrote:
Not sure if this as been discussed before but I see an issue with the idea behind "Events". It seems to be trying to do two things at the same time. The reason I started thinking about this is that I was going to merge Events, rename it and then realized that's not what I really want to do because I still want to find photos by date. I believe what we need is two items such as "Albums" and "Dates".
Events are intended to be a date-based view which the user can manipulate slightly for convenience, e.g. by renaming events to have descriptive names or by merging two consecutive days into a single event. You're right that other views of the photo collection would also be useful.
Dates would be an uneditable date view (sort of like events defaults to now). This would allow a user to quickly find all photos in a date period.
Agreed: this would be nice to have. This is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2747 .
Also note that we plan to implement searching capabilities that will let you search for photos by date, even if we haven't yet implemented a purely date-based tree in the sidebar. See http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/80 and http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1587 .
Albums would be more or less virtual albums of photos. Dates, groups and individual photos could be easily turned into Albums and named appropriately.
It's not clear to me how those would be different from tags, especially once we implement hierarchical tags (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401). Or am I missing something here?
Other sidebar views we'd like to implement include a folder-based view which lets you browse photos according to their on-disk locations (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594) and a geographic tree which lets you browse by the location photos were taken (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1473).
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