On 29 August 2011 16:45, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/29/2011 03:17 PM, pt wrote: >> It seems that Shotwell will put your tags into an existing tree *only* >> if you have the full branch tagged. >> >> e.g. if you have in the tree 'people/family/mom' and you add a photo >> tagged just 'mom' shotwell will *add* a root-level tag 'mom', instead >> of using the already-existing one. > > I agree that in this case it would be better if Shotwell matched the > existing hierarchical tag 'people/family/mom'. I've ticketed this here: > > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4051 > >> >> There is a big mess with duplicate tags: it seems that they are >> allowed on different branches, but not in the same branch. > > I don't understand. Shotwell does allow duplicate tag names in different > branches, e.g. 'friends/rusty' and 'pets/rusty'. It of course doesn't allow > two duplicate tag names in the same branch, e.g. two different tags both > called 'friends/rusty'. But how is this a mess?
Because, following the example you do below, if I have a duplicate tag e.g. friends/dave and family/dave, when I import a photo with the tags 'friends', 'family' and 'dave' what will Shotwell do? More specifically, I still don't know if Shotwell writes single flat tags to the pictures metadata into 'Keywords' (as it seems from your example below) or if it writes 'Hierarchical' tags like 'friends|dave' and 'family|dave'. I would prefer the first one, or at least both option. > As I mentioned above, duplicate tag names in different branches are allowed. > If you don't like that, you don't have to create any duplicates like this. > :) Again, see before: if the tags are flat how will Shotwell know to which branch the tag belongs? > Aside from the ticket 4051 I listed above (matching existing hierarchical > names on import), what other change would you like, specifically? I'd like to have the possibility of 'dummy tags' like below, or the possibility of tagging only a part of the branch, not the full branch. It is mostly a matter of organisation. >> Please consider the option of having 'helper' or 'dummy' tags that >> don't get automatically added to the photos, with the only purpose of >> organising the tags tree. And believe me, with several tens of >> thousands photos as I have, the tags tree will become quite large. > > I'm not sure I understand. Today, if you create a tag 'friends/dave', then > when you export a photo with this tag the exported photo will have both tags > 'friends' and 'dave'. Are you saying that you'd like to be able to mark > 'friends' as a dummy tag which isn't written into any exported photo? Exactly like that. This way I can have 'dummy' tags for keeping organised my tag tree: e.g. subject (dummy) / friends / dave and subject (dummy) / nature (dummy) / water (dummy) / lake. It basically depends on how many tags you use. Thanks for the kind reply, keep up the good work. Piergi -- Web: http://traversin.org GNU/Linux user 190604 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
