Add `group` filed to `labels` table?

[Daniel Dewald]

On Sunday, 10. January 2010 01:07:31 Casey Link wrote:
> > It is quite easy to get hundreds of different labels as you keep using
> > Amarok for a long time. Its not bad thing as thats why they are created
> > for, but browsing them can became too complicated.
> >
> > having group field could help dealing with it. Lets say labels sad,
> > happy, angry, nice would became members of mood group, slow, fast - speed
> > etc.
> 
> Yes, it's quite a fine idea until you use Amarok for a longer time, it
> would be quite easy to get hundreds of different groups. How are you
> to browse them? You'll want your groups to have sub groups, and sub
> sub groups. Not to mention what happens if you want a tag to go into
> multiple groups? The point of tags (read: amarok's labels) is to break
> out of meaningless category hierarchies. There's an inconvenient
> mathematical theorem (thank you Godel) that, in layman's terms, says:
> No matter how you organize things, there will always be something
> (e.g., a new track) that you'll need a new label for to make it fit.
> 
> Rather than add a layer of unnecessary and meaningless abstraction, we
> should fix the UI in which labels are presented so it is easy to drill
> down through several layers of labels and find the subset you are
> looking for.

After all my label UI was just meant to be a "First Start" and by no means to 
be the end of it. Extending it is and always was a necessity. As is with all 
UI's you'll know what the user wants if he misses it. So instead of pushing a 
lot of shit into it I started with the smallest possible Interface and count 
on the users to tell us what they really need here.


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Daniel Dewald
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