Hi Harald, > First off, a big round of applause to the people behind Shotwell! I for one > -but I won't be alone- was amazed at the light-weightedness and the speed of > Shotwell! Oh what a bliss :-)
Thanks - we're very happy you like Shotwell! > Well, I'll not beat around the bush: > > My two cents: > The systems of "events" and "tags" in my not so humble opinion are two sides > of the same medal; I might be way off, but by my reckoning I can divvy up > any photo collection by applying "what", "where" and "when" to every > picture; I think I'd pretty much be sorted. > > In Shotwell, the "what" (event) mimicks the "when" (date) -and I've read > more than one comment here that this is in effect experienced as such by > people using Shotwell. Events -as currently implemented- don't add much; > more often than not for me, several "events" have been photographed on any > day where Shotwell treats them as one single event. But Shotwell is more > than capable of dealing with the "when"; it's what you get out of the EXIF > information in each file... Events are a bit more flexible than that - you can create your own events by highlighting a group of photos and selecting Events->New Event or pressing Ctrl-N. You can also combine events by highlighting a group of events on the Events page and selecting Events->Merge Events. > 1) So my feature request would be to be able to separate the tags into > "headers" (and I personally would set it up as described above; what, where > and when). I'd be the first to admit this is a nice-to-have :-) We've had many requests for hierarchical tags and we're hoping to implement that for 0.9: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401. > 2) My second feature request would be for the tags to be able to be > drag-and-dropped onto a (selection of) photos, so I don't have to retype > them all the time (so if I am looking for "Christmas" I know I am not > looking for "X-Mas" or "XMAS" at the same time too). You can drag photos onto a tag to associate that tag with those photos. There is also auto-completion in the Add Tags and Modify Tags dialog boxes. > 3) If I could tag any photo in the "what", "where", "when" way, I'd be able > to retrieve any photo by it too, so I *know* I am looking for this great > picture taken in 2006 -or maybe 2005?, where Phil was in it, but Mary wasn't > and I am quite sure it was at *their* house too and wasn't this at their > wedding anniversary? It's not the archiving, it's the retrieving which is > the magical part :-) We also have a search filter toolbar in the works: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3100 and http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1587. > Having said that: I moved from 0.7.x (Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat) to 0.8.1. > (via your repos) today and was amazed at the amount of progress having been > made! Keep up the good work and thank you! Thanks again! Regards, Vera _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
