On 22 Aug 2013 09:32, "Matt Wallis" <[email protected]> wrote: > I see in the text of that ticket repeated use of the tern > "event". What is an "event"? To me, it is not an obvious > concept in the domain of managing photos.
What's an event? Something you went to, at which you took photos. Friend's wedding, summer holiday, a birthday party, weekly cycle ride in the country, whatever... Shotwell treats them in similar fashion to the "category" tags, though in a separate panel and hierarchy (and to be honest, I don't see why they couldn't just have been handled along with the other tags, nested under a top-level "events" tag...) They could last many days, or you might attend more than one event in a day, but Shotwell by default creates a separate event for each date when it imports pictures and puts them into the respective event, which is the cause of much confusion and questions on the mailing list as people then expect the events to behave as either a timeline or the directory structure (and automatically mirror filesystem or metadata changes) which doesn't happen as they're a separate concept. It might be less confusing if they just got named "event001", "event002", etc. so that people didn't immediately associate them with the date. Perhaps that could be added as a preference? Andy. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
