Yes, agreed that if the filter is always visible then having the
filter carry over to the next invocation can be quite useful.
>From the usability point of view it is desirable that an action
remains in place until the user chooses otherwise. So I agree with
you.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> On 02/21/2011 07:51 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote:
>>
>> I started up Shotwell (latest build from trunk) and was very
>> disconcerted to find that very few of my photos were visible.
>>
>> Eventually I realised that a filter term from an earlier invocation of
>> Shotwell was still active. I hit F8 to bring up the filter bar,
>> cleared the term and all was well. But it was an alarming experience
>> as I thought I has lost all my photos.
>
> Thanks for being brave enough to run our trunk build!  :)  Glad you figured
> it out.
>
>> As a result I would like to suggest that
>> a) when a filter is active the filter bar is always visible
>
> Yes - we certainly agree.  This is not implemented yet, but will be soon.
>
>> b) the filter should not be carried over from one invocation of
>> Shotwell to the next invocation.
>
> I'm not as sure about this one - if we implement (a), then it should be
> clear to the user when a filter is active and so it might be useful to
> persist the filter between invocations.  Will think about this more.
>
> adam
>
>
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